{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2020/rule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2020/rule-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/82",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2020",
  "path": "rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2020 and, subject to paragraph (2), come into force on 6th April 2020.\n(2) The amendments made by rules 4 and 9 come into force on 30th March 2020.\n(3) In these Rules, a reference to a Part or rule by number alone means the Part or rule so numbered in the Civil Procedure Rules 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132. There are relevant amendments in S.I. 2000/2092, S.I. 2001/256, S.I. 2001/2792, S.I. 2009/3390, S.I. 2010/621, S.I. 2012/2208, S.I 2013/262, S.I. 2014/407, S.I. 2014/867, S.I. 2016/234, S.I. 2016/788, S.I. 2017/950 and S.I. 2019/1118."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/82/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:34:17.189111+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."
}