{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-133",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-133.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/133",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "133",
  "heading": "Service and lodgment of notice of application",
  "text": "(1) A notice of application signed in accordance with Rule 132 may be served in the same manner as a process under Rule 58 or Rule 60(1)(b) or may be sent by the applicant or his solicitor to the person to whom it is to be given by registered post or by the recorded delivery service in an envelope addressed to that person at his last known or usual place of abode.\n(2) A copy of such notice shall be lodged with the clerk of petty sessions at least four days before the date of the hearing of the application and if the notice has been served by sending it by registered post or by the recorded delivery service, the receipt for the latter shall be attached to the copy so lodged and no further proof of service shall be required.\n(3) In reckoning the four days referred to in paragraph (2) no account shall be taken of a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday.",
  "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/133",
    "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."
}