{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-6.8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-6.8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/6.8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.8",
  "heading": "Service of the claim form where before service the defendant gives an address at which the defendant may be served",
  "text": "Subject to rules 6.5(1) and 6.7 ... , and except where any other rule or practice direction makes different provision—\n(a) the defendant may be served with the claim form at an address at which the defendant resides or carries on business within the UK ...and which the defendant has given for the purpose of being served with the proceedings; or\n(b) in any claim by a tenant or contract-holder against a landlord, the claim form may be served at an address given by the landlord under section 48 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 or section 39 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016.\n(For Production Centre Claims see paragraph 2.3(7A) of Practice Direction 7B; for Money Claims Online see paragraph 4(6) of Practice Direction 7C; and for Possession Claims Online see paragraph 5.1(4) of Practice Direction 55B.)\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": "Words in rule 6.8 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/521), regs. 1(1), 4(9)(a) (with reg. 18) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1493, regs. 1(1), 9(2)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.8 inserted (1.9.2011) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/1979), rules 1(2), 3(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.8(a) substituted (6.4.2011) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/88), rules 1, 4(h)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.8(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/521), regs. 1(1), 4(9)(b) (with reg. 18) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1493, regs. 1(1), 9(2)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.8(b) inserted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 6(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.8(b) inserted (6.4.2023) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/105), rules 1(1), 6(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.8 inserted (6.4.2011) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/88), rules 1, 4(h)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in rule 6.8 substituted (1.9.2011) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.2) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/1979), rules 1(2), 3(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in rule 6.8 substituted (1.10.2022) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/783), rules 1(1), 7(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in rule 6.8 substituted (1.10.2022) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/783), rules 1(1), 7(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in rule 6.8 heading inserted (6.4.2011) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/88), rules 1, 4(h)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/6.8",
    "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."
}