Administration of Justice Act 1982
Administration of Justice Act 1982 (1982 c. 53)
- Administration of Justice Act 1982 (1982 c. 53)
- Part I Damages for Personal Injuries Etc.
- Abolition of certain claims for damages etc.
- 1 Abolition of right to damages for loss of expectation of life.
- 2 Abolition of actions for loss of services etc.
- Fatal Accidents Act 1976
- 3 Amendments of Fatal Accidents Act 1976.
- Claims not surviving death
- 4 Exclusion of Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1934.
- Maintenance at public expense
- 5 Maintenance at public expense to be taken into account in assessment of damages.
- Provisional damages for personal injuries
- 6 Award of provisional damages for personal injuries.
- Part II Damages for Personal Injuries Etc.—Scotland
- 7 Damages in respect of services.
- 8 Services rendered to injured person.
- 9 Services to injured person’s relative.
- 10 Assessment of damages for personal injuries.
- 11 Maintenance at public expense to be taken into account in assessment of damages: Scotland.
- 12 Award of provisional damages for personal injuries: Scotland.
- 13 Supplementary.
- 14 Amendment and repeal of enactments.
- Part III Powers of Courts to Award Interest
- 15 Interest on debts and damages.
- 16 Interest on lump sums in matrimonial proceedings.
- Part IV Wills
- Amendments of Wills Act 1837
- 17 Relaxation of formal requirements for making wills.
- 18 Effect of marriage or its termination on wills.
- 19 Gifts to children etc. who predecease testator.
- Rectification and interpretation of wills
- 20 Rectification.
- 21 Interpretation of wills—general rules as to evidence.
- 22 Presumption as to effect of gifts to spouses.
- Registration of wills
- 23 Deposit and registration of wills of living persons.
- 24 Designation of Principal Registry as national body under Registration Convention.
- 25 Regulations as to deposit and registration of wills etc.
- 26 Fees as to registration in Scotland.
- International wills
- 27 The form of an international will.
- 28 International wills—procedure.
- Part V County Courts
- 29—33. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 34 Transfers from High Court to county court.
- 35 Transfers from county court to High Court.
- 36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 37 Limits of county court jurisdiction.
- Part VI Funds in Court
- 38 Management and investment of funds in court.
- 39 Investment of money transferred to National Debt Commissioners.
- 40 Statutory deposits.
- 41 Transfer of funds in court to Official Custodian for Charities and appropriate authority.
- 42 Common investment schemes.
- 43 Provision for making good defaults.
- 44 Power to repeal and modify ss. 42 and 43.
- 45 Accounts.
- 46 Supplemental.
- 47 Interpretation.
- 48 Application of Part VI to Scotland.
- 48A Application of Part VI to Northern Ireland
- Part VII Miscellaneous
- Family Law
- 49 Presentation of petitions for matrimonial relief on behalf of patients under Mental Health Act 1959.
- 50 Orders for the maintenance of wards of court.
- 51 Remission of arrears of maintenance.
- 52 Filing of orders.
- Amendments of Attachment of Earnings Act 1971
- 53 Power to order debtor to appear before court where attachment of earnings order is in force.
- 54 Deductions by employer under attachment of earnings order.
- 55 Attachment of debts
- Penalties under Solicitors Act 1974
- 56 Increase in penalty etc.
- Judicial Trustees
- 57 Accounts of judicial trustees.
- Recorders
- 58 Assistance by Recorders for transaction of business of High Court.
- Official referee’s business
- 59 Official referee’s business.
- 60 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- Jurors
- 61 Questions to persons summoned for jury service.
- Inquests
- 62 Juries where death in police custody etc. suspected.
- Explosive substances—consents to prosecutions
- 63 Consents to prosecutions under the Explosive Substances Act 1883.
- Constitution of the Law Commission
- 64 Temporary vacancies in Law Commission.
- Justices of the Peace
- 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- Land Registration
- 66 Computerisation of the title register.
- 67 Jurisdiction.
- 67 Jurisdiction.
- Part VIII Provisions relating to Northern Ireland
- 68 Damages for personal injuries etc.
- 69 Interest on debts and damages.
- 70 Amendents of Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978.
- 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 72 Travelling, subsistence and financial loss allowances for Justices of the Peace.
- Part IX General and Supplementary
- 73 Transitional provisions and savings.
- 74 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 75 Repeals and revocations.
- 76 Commencement.
- 77 Extent.
- 78 Citation.
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Interest on debts and damages
- Part I Section Inserted in Senior Courts Act 1981
- Power of High Court to award interest on debts and damages.
- Part II . . .
- Part III Consequential amendment of Crown Proceedings Act 1947
- Power of arbitrator to award interest.
- SCHEDULE 2 The Annex to the Convention on International Wills
- SCHEDULE 3 Monetary Limits of County Court Jurisdiction
- Part I The County Court Limit
- Part II Amendents of enactments specifying monetary limits
- Part III Power to raise County Court limit
- Part IV Highways
- SCHEDULE 4 Attachment of debts
- Part I Section inserted in Senior Courts Act 1981
- Administrative and clerical expenses of garnishees.
- Part II . . .
- SCHEDULE 6 Damages for Personal Injuries etc.Northern Ireland
- Abolition of actions for enticement, seduction and harbouring of child
- Fatal accidents
- Exclusion of section 14 of Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1937
- Orders for provisional damages for personal injury
- SCHEDULE 7 Interest on Debts and Damages—Northern Ireland
- Part I Section inserted in Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978
- Power of High Court to award interest on debts and damages.
- Part II Article inserted in County Courts Northern Ireland) Order 1980
- Interest on debts and damages
- Part III Amendments Consequential on Section 69
- Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (c. 44)
- Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23)
- County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980
- SCHEDULE 8 Amendments of Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978
- Part I Repeals
- Part II Repeals
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