{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-15/chapter-1/rule-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-15/chapter-1/rule-17.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/15/chapter/1/rule/17",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Failure to comply with order",
  "text": "Where a party—\n(a) against whom an order is made under Rule 12 or Rule 16; or\n(b) on whom interrogatories without order have been served,\nfails to comply with Rule 12(4), the judge or district judge, as the case may be, may make such order as he thinks just including, in particular, an order that the action be dismissed or, as the case may be, an order that the notice of intention to defend be struck out and judgment entered accordingly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order 15 rule 17 substituted (13.2.2017) by The County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/19), rules 1, 3(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/15/chapter/1/rule/17",
    "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."
}