{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-3-rules-2020/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-3-rules-2020/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/747",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-3-rules-2020",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2020 and, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), come into force on 1st October 2020.\n(2) The amendments made by rule 9(3) and (4) of these Rules to Part 34 come into force immediately after the amendments made to Part 34 by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.\n(3) The amendments made by rules 6 and 16(1) and (2) of these Rules to Part 30 and Part 83 respectively come into force on 20th September 2020.\n(4) In these Rules, a reference to a Part or rule by number alone means the Part or rule so numbered in the Civil Procedure Rules 1998.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 1(3) substituted (22.8.2020) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) (Coronavirus) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/889), rules 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 1 in force at 1.10.2020, see rule 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2019/521."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132. There are relevant amendments in S.I. 2000/221, S.I. 2001/2792, S.I. 2012/2208, S.I. 2013/262, S.I. 2014/407, S.I. 2014/867, S.I. 2014/3299, S.I. 2016/234, S.I. 2019/521 and S.I. 2020/82."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/747/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:28:00.614624+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}