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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-12/chapter-1/rule-9",
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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/9",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Judgments under the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982",
  "text": "(1) Where a civil bill has been served out of the jurisdiction under Order 6A, rule 2(2) or has been served within the jurisdiction on a defendant domiciled in England and Wales or Scotland or in any other Convention territory the plaintiff shall not be entitled to enter judgment under this Order except with the leave of the district judge.\n(2) An application for leave to enter judgment may be made ex parte and shall be supported by an affidavit stating that in the deponent’s belief—\n(a) each claim made by the civil bill is one which by virtue of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 the judge or the district judge has power to hear and determine,\n(b) no other court has exclusive jurisdiction within the meaning of Schedule 1 or under Schedule 4 to that Act to hear and determine such claim, and\n(c) where the civi bill is served out of the jurisdiction under Order 6A, Rule 2(2), such service satisfied the requirements of Schedule 1 or, as the case may require, of Article 20 of Schedule 4 to that Act.\nand giving in each case the sources and grounds of such belief.\n(3) For the purposes of this rule, domicile is to be determined in accordance with the provisions of section 41 to 46 of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and “Convention territory” means the territory or territories of any Contracting State, as defined by section 1(3) of that Act, to which the Conventions as defined in section 1(1) of that Act apply.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/12/chapter/1/rule/9",
    "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."
}