{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-130",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-130.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/130",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "130",
  "heading": "Service of process issued under Rule 128 or 129",
  "text": "(1) Service of a process issued in accordance with Rule 128 or 129 shall be effected by delivering to the defendant personally a true copy thereof.\n(2) A committal process may be served by the summons server of the administrative court division in which the defendant resides or in which any business premises used or occupied by him are situated and such service may be proved by affidavit.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 130(2) substituted (31.10.2016) by The Magistrates’ Courts (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/304), rules 1, 3(31); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/130",
    "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."
}