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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1980/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Rules amend the Rules of the Supreme Court so as—\n(a) to enlarge the definition of “cause book” (rule 2);\n(b) to give procedural backing to the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 (rules 3 and 4);\n(c) to provide for the service of process under the Hague Convention on persons resident in independent Commonwealth countries, for the services of process on a State (as defined in section 14 of the State Immunity Act 1978) and for the recovery and enforcement against a State of a default judgment (rules 5 to 8);\n(d) to permit the renewal of a writ of execution after its expiry (rule 9);\n(e) to amend the rules regarding charging orders, consequential upon the implementation of the Charging Orders Act 1978 (rules 10 to 16);\n(f) to end the use of foolscap paper in the Supreme Court for documents prepared after 1 January 1982 (rules 17 and 18);\n(g) to modernise the procedure for service in England and Wales of process originating abroad (rule 19);\n(h) to authorise proceedings in accordance with s. 85(7) of the Fair Trading Act 1973 to be begun by originating motion (rule 20);\n(i) to provide for maintenance orders which are made in Scotland or Northern Ireland, and are registered in the High Court, to be re-registered in a magistrates' court, and for those which are registered in a magistrates' court to be re-registered in the High Court, as soon as section 3 of the Administration of Justice Act 1977 is brought into force (rule 21);\n(j) to provide for the enforcement of High Court maintenance orders against persons resident in the Hague Convention countries (Czechoslovakia, France, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland) (rule 22);\n(k) to make miscellaneous minor amendments (rules 23 to 27); and\n(l) to make minor amendments consequential upon the introduction of the new form of writ (rules 28 to 31).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/629/note",
    "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."
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