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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-1998/note.json",
  "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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981 so as to—\n(i) provide that a civil bill may be served by insertion through the letter box at the defendant’s address;\n(ii) require a party against whom judgment has been entered to give notice if he wishes to be heard at the assessment of damages;\n(iii) provide that certain documents may be written on good quality A4 paper rather than on judicature paper;\n(iv) deem documents served by first class post to have been served on the seventh business day after posting;\n(v) allow for the service of certain documents to be effected by DX;\n(vi) notify a party that he need not appear if he has no objection to the making of a court order for the disclosure of documents or the inspection of property; and\n(vii) make other minor corrections.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/199/note",
    "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."
}