Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2023 and, except as provided in paragraph (2), come into force on 1st October 2023 immediately after the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023(1).
(2) Rules 3(1), (3) and (4), 4, 6, 7(1), 16(2) and 29 to 34 of these Rules come into force on 14th August 2023.
(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(2).
S.I. 2023/572. Amendments made by these Rules (with the exception of the amendments made by rules 3(1), (3) and (4), 4, 6, 7(1), 16(2) and 29 to 34 relating to the Civil National Business Centre, which come into force earlier) are accordingly to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 as amended by S.I. 2023/572: this is of particular relevance for the amendments made by rules 16, 19 and 23 of these Rules.
S.I. 1998/3132. There are relevant amendments in S.I. 2001/256, S.I. 2001/4015, S.I. 2002/2058, S.I. 2006/3435, S.I. 2007/2204, S.I. 2011.3103, S.I. 2013/262, S.I. 2016/788, S.I. 2022/101, S.I. 2022/783, S.I. 2023/105 and S.I. 2023/572.