{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-9/rule-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-rules-northern-ireland-1981/part-9/rule-7.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/9/rule/7",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Joinder of defendant under Civil Aviation Act 1949",
  "text": "(1) Notice of an application by a defendant to join any other person as a defendant pursuant to sections 40 and 49(2) of the Civil Aviation Act 1949 shall be served within five days of the service of the civil bill on the defendant.\n(2) [ The judge or district judge as the case may be] may, as a condition of making the order, require the applicant to give an undertaking signed by him to indemnify the plaintiff against—\n(a) the costs of and occasioned by the joinder of the other person; and\n(b) any costs which the plaintiff may be ordered to pay to that person.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c. 67"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "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/9/rule/7",
    "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."
}