{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-1998/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/199",
  "legislation_title": "County Court (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Service of civil bill",
  "text": "In Order 6, Rule 3(2) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following new sub-paragraph—\n“(b) where service is not required by paragraph (6) or Rule 6(1) of Order 40 to be made on the defendant in person,—\n(i) by a solicitor or member of his staff over the age of 16 years sending to the defendant at the address given for the defendant in the civil bill, a copy of the civil bill, by ordinary first class post, (in this Order, first class post means first class post which has been pre-paid or in respect of which pre-payment is not required); or\n(ii) if there is a letter box at the address given for the defendant in the civil bill by inserting through that letter box a copy of the civil bill enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to the defendant.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/199/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:24:01.449970+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."
}