{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-3-rules-1991/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-3-rules-1991/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1328",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment No. 3) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-3-rules-1991",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous amendments",
  "text": "For Order 9, rule 2(8) there shall be substituted the following—\n“(8) In an action for a liquidated sum, the proceedings shall be automatically transferred to the defendant’s home court if the action was not commenced in that court—\n(a) except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, on the filing of a defence, or\n(b) in a case to which paragraph (7)(b) applies, where the plaintiff confirms in writing under that paragraph that he wishes the proceedings to continue.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1328/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:43:15.896842+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."
}