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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c. 53)

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Administration of Justice Act 1982

1982 CHAPTER 53

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. Part I

    Damages for Personal Injuries Etc

    1. Abolition of certain claims for damages etc

      1. 1. Abolition of right to damages for loss of expectation of life

      2. 2. Abolition of actions for loss of services etc

    2. Fatal Accidents Act 1976

      1. 3. Amendments of Fatal Accidents Act 1976

    3. Claims not surviving death

      1. 4. Exclusion of Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1934

    4. Maintenance at public expense

      1. 5. Maintenance at public expense to be taken into account in assessment of damages

    5. Provisional damages for personal injuries

      1. 6. Award of provisional damages for personal injuries

  2. Part II

    Damages for Personal Injuries Etc.—Scotland

    1. 7. Damages in respect of services

    2. 8. Services rendered to injured person

    3. 9. Services to injured person’s relative

    4. 10. Assessment of damages for personal injuries

    5. 11. Maintenance at public expense to be taken into account in assessment of damages: Scotland

    6. 12. Award of provisional damages for personal injuries: Scotland

    7. 13. Supplementary

    8. 14. Amendment and repeal of enactments

  3. Part III

    Powers of Courts to Award Interest

    1. 15. Interest on debts and damages

    2. 16. Interest on lump sums in matrimonial proceedings

  4. Part IV

    Wills

    1. Amendments of Wills Act 1837

      1. 17. Relaxation of formal requirements for making wills

      2. 18. Effect of marriage or its termination on wills

      3. 19. Gifts to children etc. who predecease testator

    2. Rectification and interpretation of wills

      1. 20. Rectification

      2. 21. Interpretation of wills—general rules as to evidence

      3. 22. Presumption as to effect of gifts to spouses

    3. Registration of wills

      1. 23. Deposit and registration of wills of living persons

      2. 24. Designation of Principal Registry as national body under Registration Convention

      3. 25. Regulations as to deposit and registration of wills etc

      4. 26. Fees as to registration in Scotland

    4. International wills

      1. 27. The form of an international will

      2. 28. International wills—procedure

  5. Part V

    County Courts

    1. 29—33... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 34. Transfers from High Court to county court

    3. 35. Transfers from county court to High Court

    4. 36.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. 37. Limits of county court jurisdiction

  6. Part VI

    Funds in Court

    1. 38. Management and investment of funds in court

    2. 39. Investment of money transferred to National Debt Commissioners

    3. 40. Statutory deposits

    4. 41. Transfer of funds in court to Official Custodian for Charities and Church Commissioners

    5. 42. Common investment schemes

    6. 43. Provision for making good defaults

    7. 44. Power to repeal and modify ss. 42 and 43

    8. 45. Accounts

    9. 46. Supplemental

    10. 47. Interpretation

    11. 48. Application of Part VI to Scotland

  7. Part VII

    Miscellaneous

    1. Family Law

      1. 49. Presentation of petitions for matrimonial relief on behalf of patients under Mental Health Act 1959

      2. 50. Orders for the maintenance of wards of court

      3. 51. Remission of arrears of maintenance

      4. 52. Filing of orders

    2. Amendments of Attachment of Earnings Act 1971

      1. 53. Power to order debtor to appear before court where attachment of earnings order is in force

      2. 54. Deductions by employer under attachment of earnings order

    3. 55. Attachment of debts

    4. Penalties under Solicitors Act 1974

      1. 56. Increase in penalty etc

    5. Judicial Trustees

      1. 57. Accounts of judicial trustees

    6. Recorders

      1. 58. Assistance by Recorders for transaction of business of High Court

    7. Official referee’s business

      1. 59. Official referee’s business

      2. 60.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    8. Jurors

      1. 61. Questions to persons summoned for jury service

    9. Inquests

      1. 62. Juries where death in police custody etc. suspected

    10. Explosive substances—consents to prosecutions

      1. 63. Consents to prosecutions under the Explosive Substances Act 1883

    11. Constitution of the Law Commission

      1. 64. Temporary vacancies in Law Commission

    12. Justices of the Peace

      1. 65.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    13. Land Registration

      1. 66. Computerisation of the title register

      2. 67. Jurisdiction

  8. Part VIII

    Provisions relating to Northern Ireland

    1. 68. Damages for personal injuries etc

    2. 69. Interest on debts and damages

    3. 70. Amendents of Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978

    4. 71.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    5. 72. Travelling, subsistence and financial loss allowances for Justices of the Peace

  9. Part IX

    General and Supplementary

    1. 73. Transitional provisions and savings

    2. 74.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. 75. Repeals and revocations

    4. 76. Commencement

    5. 77. Extent

    6. 78. Citation

  10. SCHEDULE 1

    Interest on debts and damages

  11. SCHEDULE 2

    The Annex to the Convention on International Wills

  12. SCHEDULE 3

    Monetary Limits of County Court Jurisdiction

  13. SCHEDULE 4

    Attachment of debts

  14. SCHEDULE 5

    Land registration

  15. SCHEDULE 6

    Damages for Personal Injuries etc.Northern Ireland

  16. SCHEDULE 7

    Interest on Debts and Damages—Northern Ireland

  17. SCHEDULE 8

    Amendments of Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978

  18. SCHEDULE 9

An Act to make further provision with respect to the administration of justice and matters connected therewith; to amend the law relating to actions for damages for personal injuries, including injuries resulting in death, and to abolish certain actions for loss of services; to amend the law relating to wills; to make further provision with respect to funds in court, statutory deposits and schemes for the common investment of such funds and deposits and certain other funds; to amend the law relating to deductions by employers under attachment of earnings orders; to make further provision with regard to penalties that may be awarded by the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal under section 47 of the Solicitors Act 1974; to make further provision for the appointment of justices of the peace in England and Wales and in relation to temporary vacancies in the membership of the Law Commission; to enable the title register kept by the Chief Land Registrar to be kept otherwise than in documentary form; and to authorise the payment of travelling, subsistence and financial loss allowances for justices of the peace in Northern Ireland.

[28th October 1982]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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