{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-17/chapter-2/rule-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-17/chapter-2/rule-12.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/17/chapter/2/rule/12",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Report to [ judge]",
  "text": "(1) The report of the reference shall be made by the officer by certificate, in writing to [ the judge] in such one of Forms [ 82] to 86 applicable, and the certificate shall lie in the Office and may be inspected by any party, and a copy shall be supplied to any party on payment of the prescribed fee.\n(2) The party or solicitor having carriage of the proceedings shall, in such manner as the officer directs, give notice in Form 87 to all parties to the proceedings that the certificate may be inspected in the Office by any parties interested therein or affected thereby.\n(3) Any party to the proceedings—\n(a) may apply on not less than eight days’ notice for the consideration by [ the judge] of the officer’s certificate;\n(b) may, on giving at least four days’ notice to the chief clerk and the other parties, apply in Form 88 to [ the judge] on the day fired for the consideration of the certificate for a variation of the certificate or for the remittal of the certificate or any part of it for further inquiry or report.\n(4) On the hearing of an application for the variation or remittal of a certificate or any part of it, [ the judge] may confirm or vary the certificate and may make such order thereon in such one of Forms 89 to 96 or otherwise as he thinks fit or may remit it or any part of it to the officer for further inquiry or report.\n(5) Where no application is made to vary the certificate, [ the judge] shall, unless he otherwise orders, confirm the certificate and may make such order thereon as he thinks fit.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words amended by S.R. 2013 No. 19 with effect from 25.02.13"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Figure substituted by S.R. 1982 No. 287 with effect from 11.10.82"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/17/chapter/2/rule/12",
    "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."
}