{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1980/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/629",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1980",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Order 11 shall be amended as follows:—\n(1) Rule 6(1) shall be amended by inserting, at the beginning of the paragraph, the words “Save where notice of a writ is to be served pursuant to paragraph (2A),” and by substituting, for sub-paragraphs (c) and (d), the following sub-paragraphs:—\n“(c) any associated state;\n(d) any colony;\n(e) the Republic of Ireland.”\n(2) For the existing Rule 7 there shall be substituted the following rule:—\n“7 (1) Subject to paragraph (4), where a person to whom leave has been granted under Rule 1 to serve notice of a writ on a State, as defined in section 14 of the State Immunity Act 1978, wishes to have the notice served on that State, he must lodge in the Central Office—\n(a) a request for service to be arranged by the Secretary of State; and\n(b) a copy of the notice; and\n(c) except where the official language of the State is, or the official languages of the State include, English, a translation of the notice in the official language or one of the official languages of that State.\n(2) Rule 6(6) shall apply in relation to a translation lodged under paragraph (1) of this Rule as it applies in relation to a translation lodged under paragraph (5) of that Rule.\n(3) Documents duly lodged under this Rule shall be sent by the senior master to the Secretary of State with a request that the Secretary of State should arrange for the notice to be served.\n(4) Where section 12(6) of the State Immunity Act 1978 applies and the State has agreed to a method of service other than that provided by the preceding paragraphs, the writ or notice of the writ may be served either by the method agreed or in accordance with the preceding paragraphs of this rule.”\n(3) The following rule shall be added after Rule 9:—\n“Service abroad of county court process\n10 Rule 6(7) shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to any county court documents sent to the senior master for service abroad in accordance with the County Court Rules, and every certificate or declaration of service received by the senior master in respect of such service shall be transmitted by him to the registrar of the county court concerned.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/629/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:01:27.379747+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."
}