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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-5-rules-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1233",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) Rules 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-5-rules-2014",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThese Rules amend—\n(a) rule 3.8 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR), to provide that where a rule, practice direction or court order requires a party to do something within a specified time and specifies the consequences of failure to comply, the parties may, by prior written agreement, extend up to a maximum of 28 days the time for doing the act in question, provided that any hearing date is not put at risk as a result;\n(b) rule 54.22, to provide that the President of the Queen’s Bench Division will be responsible for nomination of both specialist planning judges and other judges to hear Planning Court claims;\n(c) rule 4 of the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2014 (SI 2014/407), to remove a typographical error which would otherwise suggest that the list included in that rule is incomplete; and\n(d) rule 25(1) of the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2014 (SI 2014/867), to remove a potential doubt as to the effect of that transitional provision in respect of an amendment made in the same Rules to rule 3.12(1) CPR.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1233/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:16:34.590973+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."
}