{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1997/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1997/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1837",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Business List: service out of England and Wales",
  "text": "After Order 48C, rule 7, there shall be inserted the following new rule—\n“Service out of England and Wales\n7A Order 8 shall apply where, in proceedings which are included or are to be included in the business list, service is to be effected out of England and Wales as if, for rule 2(1)(d), there were substituted the following—\n“(d) the claim is brought to enforce, rescind, dissolve, annul or otherwise affect a contract, or to recover damages or obtain other relief in respect of the breach of a contract, being (in either case) a contract which—\n(i) was made within England and Wales, or\n(ii) was made by or through an agent trading or residing within England and Wales on behalf of a principal trading or residing out of England and Wales, or\n(iii) is by its terms, or by implication, governed by English law, or\n(iv) contains a term to the effect that a court in England and Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract;\n(dd) the claim is brought in respect of a breach committed within England and Wales of a contract made within or out of England and Wales, and, irrespective of the fact, if such be the case, that the breach was preceded or accompanied by a breach committed out of England and Wales that rendered impossible the performance of so much of the contract as ought to have been performed within England and Wales;”.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Order 48C was inserted by S.I. 1994/1288."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1837/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:04:39.655513+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."
}