| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to make further provision about the courts (including assizes), their business, jurisdiction and procedure; to enable a High Court judge to accept appointment as arbitrator or umpire under an arbitration agreement; to amend the law respecting the enforcement of debt and other liabilities; to amend section 106 of the Rent Act 1968; and for miscellaneous purposes connected with the administration of justice. |
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| Citation | 1970 c. 31 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales,Northern Ireland (partially) |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 29 May 1970 |
Status: Amended | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Text of the Administration of Justice Act 1970 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, fromlegislation.gov.uk. | |
TheAdministration of Justice Act 1970 (c. 31) is a UKact of Parliament. Section 11[1] reforms theDebtors Act 1869 by further restricting the circumstances in whichdebtors may be sent toprison. Section 40[2] includes a number of provisions forbidding creditors such asdebt collection agencies from harassing debtors, including:
Section 36 was enacted to return the law to the position which it was generally thought to be, and applied by the courts since the mid-1930s,[3] before the landmark bar to adjournments applied by the courts since 1962 in the decision ofBirmingham Citizens Permanent Building Society v Caunt [1962] which had put an end to a practice under which mortgage possession summonses were adjourned to give the mortgagor an opportunity to pay by instalments. It had intended to restore the position to what it had previously been thought to be.[4] The section did not however cover those mortgages excluding section 103 of theLaw of Property Act 1925.[4]
Section 1 transferred certain non-family matters away from what was then called theProbate, Divorce and Admiralty Division and renamed it as theFamily Division.
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