{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-6.50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-6.50.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/6.50",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.50",
  "heading": "Request for service",
  "text": "The Senior Master will serve a document to which this Section applies upon receipt of—\n(a) a written request for service—\n(i) where the foreign court or tribunal is in a convention country, from a consular or other authority of that country; or\n(ii) from the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with a recommendation that service should be effected;\n(b) a translation of that request into English;\n(c) two copies of the document to be served; and\n(d) unless the foreign court or tribunal certifies that the person to be served understands the language of the document, two copies of a translation of it into English.",
  "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": "Words in rule 6.50(a)(ii) substituted (30.9.2020) by The Transfer of Functions (Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/942), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 13(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/6.50",
    "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."
}