{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-6.22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-6.22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/6.22",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.22",
  "heading": "Personal service",
  "text": "(1) Where required by another Part, any other enactment, a practice direction or a court order, a document must be served personally.\n(2) In other cases, a document may be served personally except—\n(a) where the party to be served has given an address for service under rule 6.23...; or\n(b) in any proceedings by or against the Crown.\n(3) A document may be served personally as if the document were a claim form in accordance with rule 6.5(3).\n(For service out of the jurisdiction see rules 6.40 to 6.47.)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 6 substituted (1.10.2008) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/2178), rule 1(2), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 6.22(2)(a) omitted (6.4.2011) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/88), rules 1, 4(n)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.22 inserted (6.4.2011) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/88), rules 1, 4(n)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/6.22",
    "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."
}