{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-11/rule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-11/rule-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1981/225",
  "legislation_title": "County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981",
  "path": "part/11/rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Generally",
  "text": "(1) Where a defendant claims to be entitled to any contribution, indemnity or other relief over against any person not a party to the action (in this Order referred to as a “third party”) he may, [ within 14 days after service of his notice of intention to defend], serve on the third party in like manner as a civil bill a third party notice in Form 49, together with a copy of the civil bill in the action.\n(2) A third party notice may be served at any place in Northern Ireland.\n[ . . .]\n(3) When the third party notice has been served, a copy thereof shall forthwith be delivered to the plaintiff by post or otherwise and a copy thereof lodged with the chief clerk.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. 1995 No. 151 with effect from 1.9.95"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Words deleted by S.R. 1995 No. 282 with effect from 1.9.95"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/11/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:45:17.527867+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."
}