{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-39/rule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-39/rule-5.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/39/rule/5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Service of civil bill on partners",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this Rule, where partners are sued in the name of their firm, service of a civil bill shall be good service on all the partners, whether any of them is out of Northern Ireland or not, if the civil bill is served—\n(a) on a partner personally, or\n(b) at the principal place of the partnership business in Northern Ireland, on any person having, or appearing to have, at the time of service, the control and management of the business there; [ or]\n[(c) by post (as provided by Order 6 Rule 3(2)(b)) at the principal place of the partnership business in Northern Ireland;]\nbut where the partnership has, to the knowledge of the plaintiff, been dissolved before the commencement of the action, the civil bill shall be served upon every person within Northern Ireland sought to be made liable.\n(2) Where a person carrying on business in a name other than his own is sued in that name as if it were a firm name, the civil bill may be served in accordance with the, foregoing provisions of this Rule as if he were a partner sued in the name of a firm and his business were a partnership business.\n(3) Where a civil bill is served in accordance with this Rule, the endorsement or affidavit of service shall state whether the person served was served—\n(a) as a partner; or\n(b) as a person carrying on business in a name other than his own; or\n(c) as a person having, or appearing to have, the control or management of the business; or\n(d) as a person occupying a dual position.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.R. 1985 No. 31 with effect from 25.03.85"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/39/rule/5",
    "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."
}