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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no7-rules-2013/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1974",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.7) Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no7-rules-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThese Rules make the following amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR)—\namendments to Part 45 (fixed costs) and Part 63 (intellectual property claims) in consequence of the abolition of the Patents County Court and to give effect to its reconstitution as a specialist list of the Chancery Division, to be named the “Intellectual Property Enterprise Court”. Rule 30 of these Rules includes transitional and savings provisions in this regard;\nan amendment to rule 47.15(5) to clarify the costs that may be awarded in respect of provisional assessment;\na series of amendments in consequence of the introduction of new rules and, in particular, on costs, introduced by the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/262):\nrule 3.1(2) is amended in consequence of the introduction of costs budgets;\nrules 7.2, 8.2, 8.3, 15.6 and 16.2 are amended in consequence of the reforms in relation to funding arrangements;\nrules 15.8, 63.8(1) and 62.7(1) are amended in consequence of the introduction of directions questionnaires;\nrule 29.8 and 63.8(2) are amended in consequence of changes in relation to timetabling and the steps following allocation to multi-track;\nrules 3.7, 3.7B, 21.1, 25.14, 28.2, 36.1, 36.10, 36.14(6) (in the signpost to that rule), 38.6, 38.8, 39.4, 40.18, 44.9, 52.1, 55.9, 63.26, 67.1, 67.3 and RSC Order 17 rule 8 are amended to update cross-references;\na series of minor amendments:\nrule 21.12 is amended to correct an incorrect cross-reference;\nrule 31.5 is amended to correct an incorrect heading;\nrules 36.14(2)(a) and 46.6(4) are amended to make them gender neutral;\nrules 45.18(6) and 45.31(5) are amended to take out duplicate definitions;\nrules 45.29E, 45.29H(3), 45.38(3)(a)(ii) and 46.7(1)(a) are amended to correct typographical errors;\nrule 42.2 is amended to remove the redundant words in the second set of parentheses after paragraph (6);\nthe replacement of Part 68 – References to the European Court, to take account of changes to the EU Treaties, the new European Court Procedure Rules and updated guidance from the European Court to national courts: “Recommendations to national courts and tribunals in relation to the initiation of preliminary ruling proceedings”.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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