ABSTRACT
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 56(1) and (3) of the Access to Justice Act 1999(a), having consulted as required by section 56(4), makes the following Order of which a draft has, in accordance with section 56(6), been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:
Citation, commencement and interpretation 1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Access to Justice Act 1999 (Destination of Appeals) Order
2000 and shall come into force on 2nd May 2000. (2) In this Order-
(a) ‘decision’ includes any judgment, order or direction of the High Court or a county court;
(b) ‘family proceedings’ means proceedings which are business of any description which in the High Court is for the time being assigned to the Family Division and to no other Division by or under section 61 of (and Schedule 1 to) the Supreme Court Act 1981(b); and
(c) ‘final decision’ means a decision of a court that would finally determine (subject to any possible appeal or detailed assessment of costs) the entire proceedings whichever way the court decided the issues before it.
