{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1989/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1989/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/236",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the County Court Rules 1981 so as to–\n(a) permit a plaintiff to serve a summons on a company registered in England and Wales at a place of business other than its registered office (rule 3);\n(b) enable a registrar, in a default action, to dispose of requests for time to pay without a hearing (rule 4);\n(c) enable a plaintiff, on acceptance of a payment into court which is less than the amount claimed, to lodge for taxation a bill of costs incurred by him up to the time of giving notice of acceptance (rule 5);\n(d) require a party filing a copy of a written offer with the court to do so in a sealed envelope (rule 5);\n(e) enable applications for a hearing date or further adjournment of an action or matter adjourned generally for 12 months to be determined without a hearing (rule 6);\n(f) extend the rule permitting the amendment of pleadings without an order (rule 7);\n(g) allow the proper officer, upon receipt of a case transferred from the High Court, to seek directions from the registrar as to its further treatment (rule 8);\n(h) introduce a timetable for the issue and service of witness summonses and a leave requirement for issue of a witness summons in respect of a hearing for directions (rule 9);\n(i) enable unopposed applications for variation of payments ordered under a judgment to be determined without a hearing (rule 10);\n(j) require the applicant to provide the materials necessary for service of summary proceedings for recovery of open land (rule 11);\n(k) enable unopposed applications to suspend a warrant of execution to be determined without a hearing (rule 12);\n(l) require service of copies of a charging order nisi to be effected by the judgment creditor (rule 14);\n(m) enable a litigant in person to claim as costs the cost of receiving legal advice (rule 15);\n(n) to effect amendments of a minor and consequential nature (rules 2, 13 and 16).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/236/note",
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  "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."
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