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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2000/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2000/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/221",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "text": "(1) In Part 6, at the end of the list of contents, insert the text as set out in Part I of Schedule 1 to these Rules.\n(2) After rule 6.1, in the cross-reference—\n(a) omit sub-paragraph (a);\n(b) sub-paragraph (b) stands as sub-paragraph (a); and\n(c) sub-paragraph (c) stands as sub-paragraph (b).\n(3) In rule 6.5, for “RSC Order 11”, substitute “Section III of this Part”.\n(4) In rule 6.7—\n(a) after paragraph (1), insert “(Rule 2.8 excludes a Saturday, Sunday, a Bank Holiday, Christmas Day or Good Friday from calculations of periods of 5 days or less)”; and\n(b) for paragraph (2), substitute—\n“(2) If a document is served personally—\n(a) after 5 p.m., on a business day; or\n(b) at any time on a Saturday, Sunday or a Bank Holiday,\nit will be treated as being served on the next business day.”.\n(5) After rule 6.16, insert Section III as set out in Part II of Schedule 1 to these Rules.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/221/article/4",
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  },
  "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."
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