{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-6A/rule-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-6A/rule-6.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/6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Date of hearing",
  "text": "(1) When giving leave to serve a process out of Northern Ireland, the court shall fix a date on which the proceedings to which it relates will be heard.\n(2) When exercising its powers under paragraph (1) of this Rule, the court shall have regard to the distance of the country of service.\n[(3) Where a process may be served out of Northern Ireland without leave, the date of the hearing to be shown on that process shall be fixed by the chief clerk having regard to the distance of the country of service.]",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph inserted 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/6",
    "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."
}