The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2003

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2003 and shall come into force on the commencement of Part 5 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002(1).

2.  In these Rules, “the Rules” means the Civil Procedure Rules 1998(2) and a reference to a Part or rule by number alone means the Part or rule so numbered in the Rules.

Amendments to Civil Procedure Rules 1998

3.  In Part 54, the title is amended to “JUDICIAL REVIEW AND STATUTORY REVIEW”.

4.  For the list of contents in Part 54, substitute the list of contents and insert the section heading as set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to these Rules.

5.  In Part 54

(a) in rule 54.1, in paragraph (1), for “This Part” substitute “This Section of this Part”;

(b) in rule 54.1, in paragraph (2)—

(i) at the beginning, for “In this Part” substitute “In this Section”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (e), for “this Part” substitute “this Section”;

(c) in the headings of rules 54.2 and 54.3, for “Part” substitute “Section”;

(d) in rule 54.4, and in rule 54.16, for “Part” substitute “Section”;

(e) in rule 54.20, in sub-paragraph (a), for “Part” substitute “Section”; and

(f) after rule 54.20, insert Section II as set out in Part 2 of the Schedule to these Rules.

Phillips of Worth Matravers, M. R.

Andrew Morritt, V-C.

Anthony May, L. J.

Stephen Oliver-Jones

Carlos Dabezies

Steven Whitaker

Michael Black

Michelle Stevens-Hoare

Philip Rainey

Tim Parker

Juliet Herzog

Nicholas Burkill

Alan Street

Ahmad Butt

I allow these Rules

Irvine of Lairg, C.

20th February 2003