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 20022.

2

In these Rules, “the Rules” means the Civil Procedure Rules 19983 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-JonesCarlos DabeziesSteven WhitakerMichael BlackMichelle Stevens-HoarePhilip RaineyTim ParkerJuliet HerzogNicholas BurkillAlan StreetAhmad Butt

I allow these Rules

Irvine of Lairg, C.