{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-38/rule-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-38/rule-2.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/38/rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Power to order advertisements",
  "text": "(1) In any proceeding for a legacy or distributive share of the property or assets of a testator or, intestate, [ the judge] may order the party suing to give notice, either by advertisement or otherwise, requiring persons having claims on or against the property and assets of the deceased to produce and verify such claims.\n(2) All costs relating to such notice shall be borne and paid in such manner and by such parties as [ the judge] shall direct.\n(3) [ The judge] may adjourn the hearing of the proceedings to some future sittings and from time to time as occasion may require so as to allow sufficient time for publishing and giving such notice.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/38/rule/2",
    "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."
}