{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-112",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-112.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1984/225",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984",
  "path": "rule/112",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "112",
  "heading": "Service of orders and notices",
  "text": "(1) Where a court of summary jurisdiction makes an attachment of earnings order or an order varying or discharging such an order, the clerk of petty sessions shall cause a copy of the order to be served on the employer and shall send a copy of the order to the defendant.\n(2) Where an attachment of earnings order made by a court of summary jurisdiction ceases to have effect as provided in Article 104(7) or (8) of the Order the notice of the cessation required by Article 104(9) shall be given to the employer.\n(3) The notice required by the preceding paragraph shall be given by the clerk of petty sessions.\n(4) A copy of Article 102 of the Order shall be served with or annexed to the attachment of earnings order.\n(5) Where under Article 105 of the Order (which relates to statements of earnings, etc.) a direction is given to the defendant or to a person appearing to be an employer of the defendant or where under these Rules a copy of an order is to be served or a notice is to be given to any person—\n(a) service may be effected on, or the direction or notice may be given to a person, other than a corporation, by delivering it to the person to whom it is directed or by sending it by post in a letter addressed to him at his last known or usual place of abode, or, in the case of an employer or a person appearing to be an employer of the defendant, at his place of business;\n(b) service may be effected on, or the direction or notice given to, a corporation by delivering the document at, or sending it to—\n(i) such office or place as the corporation may, for the purpose of this Rule, have specified in writing to the court in relation to the defendant or to a class or description to which he belongs, or\n(ii) the registered office of the corporation if that office is in Northern Ireland, or, if there is no registered office in Northern Ireland, any place therein where the corporation trades or conducts its business.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/112",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:12.928261+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."
}