{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1980/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1980/article-7.json",
  "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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Order 42 shall be amended as follows:—\n(1) Rule 3(1) shall be amended by inserting, at the beginning, the words “Subject to the provisions of Rule 3A”.\n(2) After rule 3 there shall be inserted the following rule:—\n“Judgment against a State\n3A (1) Where judgment on failure to acknowledge service has been entered against a State, as defined in section 14 of the State Immunity Act 1978, the judgment shall not take effect until two months after service on the State of—\n(a) a copy of the judgment, and\n(b) a copy of the affidavit in support of the application for leave to enter judgment, unless one has already been served pursuant to a direction under Order 13, rule 7A(3).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/629/article/7",
    "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."
}