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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-6A/rule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-6A/rule-4.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/4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "England and Wales and Scotland",
  "text": "[ Where leave is asked] from the court under Rule 2 to serve a process in England and Wales or in Scotland and it appears to the court that there may be a concurrent remedy in England and Wales or Scotland (as the case may be), the court shall have regard to the comparative cost and convenience of proceeding in the division, or in the place of residence of the respondent, and particularly to the powers and jurisdiction of the county courts in England and Wales and of the sheriff court in Scotland, respectively.\n[ . . .]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words substituted by S.R. 1986 No. 347 with effect from 1.1.87"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (2) revoked by S.R. 1986 No. 347 with effect from 1.1.87"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/6A/rule/4",
    "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."
}