The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 and come into force on 1st October 2022, except as provided by paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) The amendments made by rules 22, 23 and 29 of these Rules come into force on 1st December 2022.

(3) The amendments made by rule 17(1)(b) and (7), rule 18 (in so far as that rule applies to scale costs for small claims in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court) and rule 28 of these Rules apply only to claims made on or after 1st October 2022.

(4) In these Rules—

(a) a reference to a Part or rule by number alone means the Part or rule so numbered in the Civil Procedure Rules 1998(1); and

(b) a reference to “Schedule 1” means Schedule 1 to those Rules, and a reference to an Order by number and prefixed by “RSC” means the RSC Order so numbered in that Schedule.

(1)

S.I. 1998/3132. There are relevant amendments in S.I. 1999/1008, S.I. 2001/221, S.I. 2001/256, S.I. 2001/2792, S.I. 2001/4015, S.I. 2004/1306, S.I. 2004/2072, S.I. 2005/3515, S.I. 2005/2292, S.I. 2008/2178, S.I. 2008/3327, S.I. 2009/3390, S.I. 2010/621, S.I. 2010/1953, S.I. 2011/88, S.I. 2011/1979, S.I. 2012/2208, S.I. 2013/262, S.I. 2013/1974, S.I. 2014/407, S.I. 2014/2044, S.I. 2014/3299, S.I. 2016/707, S.I. 2016/788, S.I. 2018/479, S.I. 2019/521, S.I. 2020/582, S.I. 2021/117, S.I. 2021/196, and S.I. 2022/101.