{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1985/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1985/article-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1985/566",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1985",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For Order 3, rule 3, there shall be substituted the following new rule—\n“Commencement of action\n3 (1) Subject to paragraph (1A), a plaintiff desiring to commence a default or fixed date action shall file a request for the issue of a summons, together with the particulars of claim and copies required by Order 6.\n(1A) If the plaintiff so desires and the proper officer so allows, the summons may be prepared by the plaintiff and in that event the summons with a copy for each defendant shall be filed by the plaintiff with the documents mentioned in paragraph (1).\n(2) On the filing of the documents mentioned in paragraph (1) or paragraph (1A) the proper officer shall—\n(a) enter a plaint in the records of the court and in the case of a fixed date action fix the return day;\n(b) if necessary, prepare a summons;\n(bb) issue the summons and make any necessary copies;\n(c) annex to, or incorporate in, the summons and every copy so made a copy of the particulars of claim and also annex to every copy of the summons for service a form of admission, defence and counterclaim, and,\n(d) deliver to the plaintiff—\n(i) a plaint note and\n(ii) if the summons is to be served otherwise than by an officer of the court, the summons and all necessary copies, with any documents required to be annexed thereto, for service in accordance with Order 7.\n(3) In the case of a fixed date action the return day shall, unless the court otherwise directs, be a day fixed for a pre-trial review.\n(4) Paragraph (3) shall not apply to an action for the recovery of land unless a claim is joined for some relief other than the payment of mesne profits or arrears of rent or for moneys secured by a mortgage or charge.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/566/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T17:12:43.237687+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."
}