{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2021/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2021/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/117",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Senior Courts Of England And Wales\nCounty Court, England And Wales\nMade 28th January 2021\nLaid before Parliament 3rd February 2021\nComing into force 6th April 2021\nThe Civil Procedure Rule Committee, having power under section 2 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997 to make rules under section 1 of and Schedule 1 to that Act and after fulfilling the requirements of section 2(6) of that Act, 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. 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)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/117/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:45.336216+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."
  }
}