{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-2013/rule-96",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-2013/rule-96.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/3208",
  "legislation_title": "The Postal Administration Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/postal-administration-rules-2013",
  "path": "rule/96",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Form and contents of application",
  "text": "(1) Each application shall be in writing and shall state—\n(a) the names of the parties;\n(b) the name of company which is the subject of the postal administration proceedings to which the application relates;\n(c) the court (and where applicable, the division or district registry of that court) in which the application is made;\n(d) where the court has previously allocated a number to the postal administration proceedings within which the application is made, that number;\n(e) the nature of the remedy or order applied for or the directions sought from the court;\n(f) the names and addresses of the persons (if any) on whom it is intended to serve the application or that no person is intended to be served;\n(g) where the 1986 Act or Rules require that notice of the application is to be given to specified persons, the names and addresses of all those persons (so far as known to the applicant); and\n(h) the applicant’s address for service.\n(2) The application must be authenticated by the applicant if they are acting in person or, when they are not so acting, by or on behalf of their solicitor.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 96 in force at 31.1.2014, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/3208/rule/96",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:31:29.914042+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."
}