{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-36.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-36.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/36.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "36.1",
  "heading": "Scope of this Part",
  "text": "(1) This Part contains a self-contained procedural code about offers to settle made pursuant to the procedure set out in this Part (“Part 36 offers”).\n(2) Section I of this Part contains general rules about Part 36 offers.\n(3) Section II of this Part contains rules about Part 36 offers where a claim is one to which Section VI (fixed costs in the fast track), Section VII (fixed costs in the intermediate track) or Section VIII (claims for noise-induced hearing loss) of Part 45 applies.\n(4) Section III of this Part contains rules about offers to settle where the parties have followed the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury Claims in Road Traffic Accidents (“the RTA Protocol”) or the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury (Employers’ Liability and Public Liability) Claims (“the EL/PL Protocol”) and have started proceedings under Part 8 in accordance with Practice Direction 49F.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 36 substituted (6.4.2015) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 8) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/3299), rule 2(c), Sch. 1 (with rule 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 36.1(3) inserted (1.10.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/572), rules 1(1), 12(2)(a) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 36.1(4) renumbered as rule 36.1(4) (1.10.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/572), rules 1(1), 12(2)(b)(i) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 36.1(4) substituted (1.10.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/572), rules 1(1), 12(2)(b)(ii) (with rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in rule 36.1(3) substituted (1.10.2022) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/783), rules 1(1), 15(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/36.1",
    "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."
}