# The County Court (Amendment No. 4) Rules 1989, Article 19: Costs sanction for failure to admit facts or documents


For Order 20, rule 2(2), there shall be substituted the following—
“(2) If the party served with a notice to admit facts under paragraph (1) does not deliver a written admission of the facts within 7 days after service of the notice on him, the costs of proving the facts and the costs occasioned by and thrown away as a result of his failure to admit the facts shall, unless the court otherwise directs, be borne by him.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2426/article/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-4-rules-1989/article-19
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