The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2019

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Rules may be cited as the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2019 and come into force on 1st October 2019.

(2) 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).

Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998

2.  The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 are amended in accordance with rules 3 and 4 of, and the Schedule to, these Rules.

Amendment of Part 45

3.  In rule 45.41(2), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) “Aarhus Convention claim” means a claim brought by one or more members of the public by judicial review or review under statute which challenges the legality of any decision, act or omission of a body exercising public functions, and which is within the scope of Article 9(1), 9(2) or 9(3) of the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters done at Aarhus, Denmark on 25 June 1998 (“the Aarhus Convention”);”.

Substitution of Part 53

4.  For Part 53, substitute Part 53 as set out in the Schedule to these Rules.

Transitional provision

5.  The amendments made by rule 4 of, and the Schedule to, these Rules do not apply in relation to a claim issued before 1st October 2019.

The Right Honourable Sir Terence Etherton, MR

Lord Justice Coulson

Mr Justice Birss

Mr Justice Kerr

Master Cook

District Judge Hovington

John Dagnall

Masood Ahmed

I allow these Rules

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Paul Maynard

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

Ministry of Justice

11th July 2019