{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-8-rules-2014/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-8-rules-2014/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3299",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 8) Rules 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no-8-rules-2014",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n(a) a reference to a Part or rule by number alone means the Part or rule so numbered in the Civil Procedure Rules 1998; and\n(b) a reference to an Order by number and prefixed “RSC” means the RSC Order so numbered in Schedule 1 to those Rules.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 3 in force at 9.1.2015, see rule 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132, to which there are relevant amendments in S.I. 1999/1008, S.I. 2000/2092, S.I. 2000/221, S.I. 2003/3361, S.I. 2005/2292, S.I. 2006/3435, S.I. 2007/2204, S.I. 2009/3390, S.I. 2010/1953, S.I. 2013/262, S.I. 2013/1695, S.I. 2004/2072, S.I. 2013/1974 and S.I. 2014/407."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3299/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:53:41.072099+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."
}