{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-40.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-40.4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/40.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "40.4",
  "heading": "Service of judgments and orders",
  "text": "(1) Where a judgment or an order has been drawn up by a party and is to be served by the court—\n(a) the party who drew it up must file a copy to be retained at court and sufficient copies for service on him and on the other parties; and\n(b) once it has been sealed(GL), the court must serve a copy of it on each party to the proceedings.\n(2) Unless the court directs otherwise, any order made otherwise than at trial must be served on—\n(a) the applicant and the respondent; and\n(b) any other person on whom the court orders it to be served.\n(Rule 6.21 sets out who is to serve a document other than the claim form.)\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 40.4 substituted (1.10.2008) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2178), rules 1(2), 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 40.4 omitted (2.12.2002) by virtue of The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2058), rules 1(b), 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 40.4 in force at 26.4.1999, see Signature"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/40.4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}