# The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 6) Rules 2020, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Rules)
These Rules amend the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998/3132) by—
amending Part 81—
to ensure that a District Judge is able to determine a contempt application in the county court where a rule or practice direction so provides;
to 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;
amending 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1228/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-6-rules-2020/note
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