{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no7-rules-2013/rule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-no7-rules-2013/rule-3.json",
  "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": "rule/3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "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;\n(b) a reference to an Order by number and prefixed “RSC” means the RSC Order so numbered in Schedule 1 to those Rules; and\n(c) a reference to an Order by number and prefixed by “CCR” means the CCR Order so numbered in Schedule 2 to those Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132. There are relevant amendments in S.I. 2000/221 rules 13, 18(4) Schedule 3 Part II, Schedule 4 Part II; S.I. 2000/1317 rules 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11; S.I. 2001/256 rule 17 Schedule 1; S.I. 2001/4015, rule 29(e) Schedule 6; S.I. 2002/2058 rules 8, 26, Schedule 6; S.I. 2002/3219 rule 8, Schedule; S.I 2004/3419 rule 16, Schedule 2; S.I. 2005/2292, rules 3, 7; S.I. 2006/3435 rule 7(1), Schedule; S.I. 2007/2204 rule 8, Schedule 2; S.I. 2008/2178 rules 4(b), 17(c)(iii), 18(b); S.I. S.I. 2009/2092 rules 12, 14, Schedule 1; 2009/3390 rules 6(b), 7(a), 7(b), 11, 12, 20(b), 38, 41(b), 42; S.I. 2010/621 rules 5(c), 6(d), (g), (h); S.I. 2010/1953 rule 8(c), Schedule 2; S.I. 2011/1043 article 4(1); S.I. 2012/2208 rules 2, 10; S.I. 2013/262, rules 5(h), 7(b)(ii)(aa), 9(c), 10(d), 16, 19, Schedule; S.I. 2013/534 regulation 14, Schedule, Part 2, paragraph 13; S.I. 2013/789 rule 3; and S.I. 2013/1695 rules 6, 7, Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1974/rule/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:21.601997+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."
}