(1)    This Order may be cited as the Children (Allocation of Proceedings) (Amendment) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 6th July 2006.

The Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991, is amended in accordance with the following articles of this Order.

In Schedule 1 (family hearing centres) after the entry for Bromley County Court, insert—

“Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court”.

In Schedule 2 (care centres)—

(a)    omit the references to De Maldwyn, North Pembrokeshire, South Pembrokeshire and Welshpool;

(b)    after the entry for Miskin, insert—

(c)    after the entry for North West Gwent, insert—

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Harriet Harman

Minister of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Date 13th June 2006

It has been decided that the Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court will become a Family Hearing Centre as defined in article 2 of the Children (Allocation of Proceedings) Order 1991 (“the 1991 Order”). A Family Hearing Centre is a county court designated for the purposes of hearing cases under Parts III, IV or V of the Children Act 1989. This Order effects this change and amends the 1991 Order to confer Family Centre status upon the Clerkenwell & Shoreditch County Court.

Consequential amendments are also made following the Local Justice Areas (No 2) Order 2005 (SI 2005/2949) which abolished the areas of De Maldwyn, North Pembrokeshire, South Pembrokeshire and Welshpool and created the new areas Montgomeryshire and Pembrokeshire.