{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-6-rules-2020/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-6-rules-2020/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1228",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 6) Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-6-rules-2020",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998/3132) by—\namending Part 81—\nto ensure that a District Judge is able to determine a contempt application in the county court where a rule or practice direction so provides;\nto enable certain applications for permission to make a contempt application to be determined, and if permission is granted for the contempt application itself to be determined, by a wider range of judges;\namending Part 83 to ensure that the court’s permission to issue a writ of restitution in aid of a writ of possession is required regardless of whether permission was required for the writ of possession itself.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1228/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:27.923907+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."
}