{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2001/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2001/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/256",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2001 and shall come into force—\n(a) for the purposes of rules 2, 4 to 10, 12 to 16 and 19, and this rule, on 26th March 2001;\n(b) for the purposes of rules 22, 23, 26 and 28, on the date of entry into force of section 90 of the Access to Justice Act 1999;\n(c) for the purposes of rules 24 and 30, on the date of entry into force of section 23 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987; and\n(d) for all other purposes, on 15th October 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1999 c. 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1987 c. 42."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/256/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:05:50.883123+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."
}