{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2016/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2016/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/234",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2016",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "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 pre-fixed “RSC” means the RSC Order so numbered in Schedule 1 to those Rules; and\n(c) a reference to an Order by number and pre-fixed “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, to which there are relevant amendments in S.I. 2001/2792, 2008/3327, 2009/3390, 2013/262, 2013/1695, 2014/407, 2014/867, to which there is a relevant amendment in S.I. 2014/1233, and 2015/1569."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/234/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:26:49.297967+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."
}