{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-7/rule-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-7/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/7/rule/6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Counterclaim against person other than plaintiff",
  "text": "Where a defendant desires to set up a counterclaim against a plaintiff and some other person, he may apply to [ the judge or district judge as the case may be] for an order that the other person be added as a defendant to the counterclaim and [ the judge or district judge as the case may be] may make an order accordingly and may give such directions as may be necessary to enable the questions at issue between the parties to be determined at the hearing of the action.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words amended by S.R. 2013 No. 19 with effect from 25.02.13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1981/225/part/7/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."
}