The 4th amendments to the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China were passed at the 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National Peopl's Congress (NPCSC) of the PRC on December 24, 2021 and came into effect on January 1, 2022.
The amendments consist of 7 new provisions and 26 amended provisions. The necessity of the amendments has been triggered mainly by the Pilot Reform of Civil Proceedings for the Separation of Complicated Cases from Simple Ones which was decided by the NPC and became effective on December 28, 2019 and has been implemented by the Supreme People's Court of the PRC (SPC) since January 15, 2020.
13 terms were amended to be compatible with the Civil Code of the PRC effective on January 1, 2022. For example, "holidays" were changed to "statutory holidays" in the updated version of the Law.
Of note are the amendments to the five procedures in terms of judicial confirmation of mediation, small claims cases, single judge courts, online litigation, and starting dates of the applications for enforcement.
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