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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2002/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2002/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2058",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2002",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "text": "After rule 5.4, insert—\n“Filing and sending documents\n5.5 (1) A practice direction may make provision for documents to be filed or sent to the court by—\n(a) facsimile; or\n(b) other electronic means.\n(2) Any such practice direction may—\n(a) provide that only particular categories of documents may be filed or sent to the court by such means;\n(b) provide that particular provisions only apply in specific courts; and\n(c) specify the requirements that must be fulfilled for any document filed or sent to the court by such means.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2058/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:50:59.672067+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}