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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-12/chapter-1/rule-5",
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  "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/12/chapter/1/rule/5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Mixed claims",
  "text": "Where a civil bill served on any defendant is endorsed with two or more of the claims mentioned in Rules 1 to 4, and no other claim, then if that defendant fails to serve a notice of intention to defend in Form 42 within a period of 21 days after service upon him of the civil bill, the plaintiff may enter against that defendant such judgment in respect of any such claim as he would be entitled to enter under those rules if that were the only claim endorsed on the civil bill and proceed with the claim against the other defendants if any.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/12/chapter/1/rule/5",
    "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."
}