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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-6A/rule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-6A/rule-1.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/6A/rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order the following words and expressions have the following meanings, unless a contrary intention appears:—\n“originating process” includes a third party notice [ . . .];\n“interlocutory process” means an order, notice or summons made, given or issued in proceedings already commenced in or remitted to a county court;\n“process” means an originating process or an interlocutory process;\n“country” means a foreign country, or any country mentioned in Rule 7(5);\n“country of service” means the country in which a process is to be served or is served pursuant to leave granted under this Order;\n“convention country” means a foreign country with which a convention has been made in relating to civil procedure including the service documents issued from Northern Ireland in the foreign country and includes a country which is a party to the Hague Convention;\n[ “convention territory” means the territory or territories of any Contracting State, as defined by section 1(3) of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 ... ;]\n“Hague Convention” means the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extra-Judicial Documents in Civil or Commercial matters signed at The Hague on 15th November 1965;\n“associated state” has the meaning given to it by the Interpretation Act 1978;\n“colony” has the meaning given to it by the Interpretation Act 1978;\n“applicant” means the party applying for or obtaining leave under this Order to serve a process outside Northern Ireland [ or, where leave is not required, the party serving a process out of Northern Ireland;]\n“respondent” means the party on whom the applicant seeks or obtains leave to serve a process [ or, where leave is not required, the party on whom a process is served out of Northern Ireland.]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Order 6A rule 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The County Court (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/234), rules 1, 3(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words deleted by S.R. 2002 No. 255 with effect from 4.11.02"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.R. 1986 No. 347 with effect from 1.1.87"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Cmnd. 3986"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1978 c. 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.R. 1986 No. 347 with effect from 1.1.87"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/6A/rule/1",
    "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."
}