{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-19.26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-19.26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/19.26",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "19.26",
  "heading": "Test claims",
  "text": "(1) Where a direction has been given for a claim on the group register to proceed as a test claim and that claim is settled, the management court may order that another claim on the group register be substituted as the test claim.\n(2) Where an order is made under paragraph (1), any order made in the test claim before the date of substitution is binding in the substituted claim unless the court orders otherwise.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 19 substituted (2.5.2000) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/221), rule 1(b), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rules 19.9-19.9F substituted for rule 19.9 (1.10.2007) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2007 (S.I. 2007/2204), rule 1, Sch. 1 (with rule 21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 19.15 renumbered as rule 19.26 (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 12(27)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in rule 19.26(2) substituted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 12(27)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/19.26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+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."
}