Rule 2123.Acts of Assembly Not Suspended.

The rule is a savings clause with a narrow target. The rules on the Commonwealth and political subdivisions as parties do not suspend or affect any Act of Assembly that regulates the venue of actions brought by three kinds of Commonwealth actors: the head of an executive or administrative department, a departmental administrative board or commission, and an independent administrative board or commission. Where such a statute sets venue, it still governs those actions.

The clause works alongside Rule 2103(a), which lets the Commonwealth sue in common pleas in any county a Supreme Court rule permits, and the Official Note to Rule 2103 cross-refers here. It covers venue statutes for actions these officials and bodies bring, not every statute touching government litigation. Rule 2125 goes the other way for one statute, suspending Section 213 of the Act of March 10, 1949, P. L. 30, which relates to actions by and against school districts.