General Amendment 2

S.I. No. 188 of 2008: Circuit Court Rules (Jurisdiction, Recognition, Enforcement and Service of Proceedings) 2008

1. These Rules, which may be cited as the Circuit Court Rules (Jurisdiction, Recognition, Enforcement and Service of Proceedings) 2008, shall come into operation on the 9 day of July 2008.

2. These Rules shall be construed together with the Circuit Court Rules 2001.

3. The Circuit Court Rules are amended by:

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(iii) the insertion immediately following Rule 24 of the Interpretation of Terms provisions of the following:

“25. References to any Regulation, Directive, Decision or Framework Decision adopted by the Council of the European Union, whether or not jointly with any other institution of the European Union, shall (save where any such amendment or extension does not have force of law in the State) be deemed to be references to such Regulation, Directive, Decision or Framework Decision as amended or extended from time to time, and, where any subsequent Regulation, Directive, Decision or Framework Decision repealing such Regulation, Directive, Decision or Framework Decision expressly so provides, to a subsequent Regulation, Directive, Decision or Framework Decision.”

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