{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2016/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2016/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/234",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Senior Courts Of England And Wales\nCounty Court, England And Wales\nMade 23rd February 2016\nLaid before Parliament 25th February 2016\nComing into force in accordance with rule 2\nThe Civil Procedure Rule Committee, having power under section 2 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 to make rules of court under section 1 of that Act and after consulting in accordance with section 2(6)(a) of the Civil Procedure Act 1997, and having power under sections 14(4) and 17(3) of the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971, makes the following Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 12. Section 2(1) was substituted by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), section 15 and Schedule 4, Part 1. Section 1(3) was substituted by section 82(1) of the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39) and further amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, sections 15 and 146 and Schedule 4, Part 1, paragraphs 261 and 262 and Schedule 18, paragraph 2. Section 1(1) was amended by the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), section 17(5) and Schedule 9, Part 3, paragraph 67(a)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 32. Section 14(4) was amended by S.I. 2006/1737, articles 34, 41 and there are amendments not yet in force (see the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, section 91, Schedule 15, Part 1, paragraph 1, and Part 2, paragraph 13). Section 17(3) was amended by the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), section 154 and Schedule 7, paragraph 99 and the Access to Justice Act 1999, section 90 and Schedule 13, paragraphs 64 and 67, S.I. 2006/1737, articles 34 and 43 and the Crime and Courts Act 2013 section 17(5), Schedule 9, Part 2, paragraph 25(1) & (3). There are also amendments to section 17(3) not yet in force (see the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, section 91 and Schedule 15, Part 1, paragraph 1, and Part 2, paragraphs 17 and 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/234/introduction",
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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."
}