{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-6.5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-6.5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/6.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.5",
  "heading": "Personal service",
  "text": "(1) Where required by another Part, any other enactment, a practice direction or a court order, a claim form must be served personally.\n(2) In other cases, a claim form may be served personally except—\n(a) where rule 6.7 applies; or\n(b) in any proceedings against the Crown.\n(Part 54 contains provisions about judicial review claims and Part 66 contains provisions about Crown proceedings.)\n(3) A claim form is served personally on—\n(a) an individual by leaving it with that individual;\n(b) a company or other corporation by leaving it with a person holding a senior position within the company or corporation; or\n(c) a partnership (where partners are being sued in the name of their firm) by leaving it with—\n(i) a partner; or\n(ii) a person who, at the time of service, has the control or management of the partnership business at its principal place of business.\n(Practice Direction 6A sets out the meaning of “senior position”.)",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "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": "Words in rule 6.5 substituted (6.4.2010) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3390), rules 1(2), 5(b)(ii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/6.5",
    "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."
}