{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-43/rule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-43/rule-3.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/43/rule/3",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Delivery and lodgment of notices and documents",
  "text": "All notices or documents required by any enactment to be delivered to or lodged with the [ district judge] or chief clerk may be delivered or lodged—\n(a) by leaving the notice or document at the Office with the chief clerk or with any clerk or assistant of the chief clerk; or\n(b) by sending the notice or document by [ ordinary first class post (that is first class post which has been pre-paid or in respect of which prepayment is not required)] to the chief clerk at his office, posted at such a time as to permit its delivery, in the ordinary course of post, within the period required by the enactment for the delivery of the notice or document.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "To be construed as such by S.R. 1991 No. 230 with effect from 28.06.91"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. 1995 No. 151 with effect from 01.09.95"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/43/rule/3",
    "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."
}