{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-3/chapter-1/rule-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-3/chapter-1/rule-10.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/3/chapter/1/rule/10",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Actions relating to land",
  "text": "In actions brought under Article 12 of the Order, any person not named as a defendant—\n(a) may appear and defend, on sending by post to the chief clerk and to each plaintiff and defendant [ at any time before the hearing] a notice claiming that he has an estate or interest in the land to which the action relates or a part thereof;\n(b) may, by leave of [ the judge or district judge as the case may be], appear and defend at the hearing, and [ the judge or district judge as the case may be] may, if he thinks fit, add the name of such person as a defendant in the action;\nand [ the judge or district judge as the case may be] may deal with such person, both as to costs and allowances, as if he had been originally named as a defendant and served with the civil bill.",
  "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 amended by S.R. 2013 No. 19 with effect from 25.02.13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/3/chapter/1/rule/10",
    "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."
}