The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) Rules 2013

Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 1571 (L. 17)

Senior Courts Of England And Wales

County Courts, England And Wales

The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 5) Rules 2013

Approved by both Houses of Parliament

Made

26th June 2013

Laid before Parliament

27th June 2013

Coming into force in accordance with rule 1

The Lord Chancellor makes the following Rules in exercise of the power conferred by paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the Justice and Security Act 2013(1) (“the 2013 Act”) to make rules under section 1 of the Civil Procedure Act 1997(2) and sections 6(9) and (10), 7(6), 8, 10, 11 and 18(4) and (5) of the 2013 Act.

Before making these Rules, the Lord Chancellor has consulted the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in accordance with paragraph 3(3)(a) of Schedule 3 to the 2013 Act.

(1)

2013 c.18.

(2)

1997 c.12. Section 1 was substituted by section 82(1) of the Courts Act 2003 (c.39) and further amended by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c.4), section 15 and 146 and Schedule 4, paragraphs 261 and 262 and Schedule 18.