{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-3-rules-1990/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-3-rules-1990/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1764",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-3-rules-1990",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Automatic directions",
  "text": "After Order 9, rule 4, there shall be inserted the following new rule–\n“Judgment in default in fixed date action\n4A Where, in a fixed date action to which Order 17, rule 11 applies, the defendant fails to deliver a defence within the period of 14 days mentioned in rule 2, the plaintiff may apply to the court for judgment or directions as to the conduct of the proceedings and the court may, subject to the provisions of these rules, give such judgment or directions on the application as it thinks just.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1764/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:07:46.524471+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."
}