{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2026/rule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2026/rule-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/97",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-amendment-rules-2026",
  "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 2026.\n(2) These Rules come into force as follows—\n(a) rules 1 and 2, 4 to 6 and 8 come into force on 6th April 2026;\n(b) rule 3 comes into force on the date on which, and immediately after, paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 comes into force for all purposes; and\n(c) rule 7 comes into force on the date on which, and immediately after, section 56 of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025 comes into force for all purposes.\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": "2022 c. 35."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2025 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/3132. There are relevant amendments in S.I. 2000/2092, S.I. 2007/3543, S.I. 2009/3390, S.I. 2010/1953, S.I. 2013/1412, S.I. 2013/1571, S.I. 2014/407, S.I. 2022/101, S.I. 2022/783, S.I. 2023/572, S.I. 2024/106, S.I. 2024/839, S.I. 2025/893 and S.I. 2025/1229."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/97/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:06:37.164684+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."
}