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Article 13 Counterclaims and notices of judgment

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Order 15, rule 3 shall be amended as follows—

(a)

in paragraph (2) for the words from “a form of acknowledgement” to “circumstances may require” there shall be substituted the words “the defendant must issue the counterclaim out of the appropriate office and serve on the person concerned a sealed copy of the counterclaim, together with a form of acknowledgement of service in Form No. 14 in Appendix A (with such modifications as the circumstances may require) and a copy of the writ or originating summons by which the action was begun and of all other pleadings served in the action”;

(b)

in paragraph (4) for the words “acknowledging service of a counterclaim by” there shall be substituted the words “issuing and acknowledging service of a counterclaim against”;

(c)

in paragraph (5) after the word “namely,” there shall be inserted the words “Order 6, rule 7(3) and (5),”.