Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2020 and, subject to paragraph (2), come into force on 6th April 2020.

(2) The amendments made by rules 4 and 9 come into force on 30th March 2020.

(3) In these Rules, a reference to a Part or rule by number alone means the Part or rule so numbered in the Civil Procedure Rules 1998(1).

(1)

S.I. 1998/3132. There are relevant amendments in S.I. 2000/2092, S.I. 2001/256, S.I. 2001/2792, S.I. 2009/3390, S.I. 2010/621, S.I. 2012/2208, S.I 2013/262, S.I. 2014/407, S.I. 2014/867, S.I. 2016/234, S.I. 2016/788, S.I. 2017/950 and S.I. 2019/1118.