{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-4-rules-1989/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-4-rules-1989/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2426",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment No. 4) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-no-4-rules-1989",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Costs sanction for failure to admit facts or documents",
  "text": "For Order 20, rule 3(2), there shall be substituted the following—\n“(2) If the party served with a notice under paragraph (1) desires to challenge the authenticity of the document, he must, within 7 days after service of the notice, serve on the party by whom it was given a notice that he does not admit the authenticity of the document and requires it to be proved at the trial.\n(2A) Where a party serves a notice under paragraph (2) and the document to which it relates is proved at the trial, the costs of proving the document and the costs occasioned by and thrown away as a result of that party’s non-admission shall, unless the court otherwise directs, be borne by him.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2426/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:34.123805+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."
}