{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-4-1989/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-4-1989/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2427",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment No. 4) 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-no-4-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Service of process",
  "text": "For Order 6, rule 8(1), there shall be substituted the following—\n“(1) For the purposes of service, a writ (other than a concurrent writ) is valid in the first instance—\n(a) where leave to serve the writ out of the jurisdiction is required under Order 11, for 6 months,\n(b) in any other case, for 4 months\nbeginning with the date of its issue.\n(1A) A concurrent writ is valid in the first instance for the period of validity of the original writ which is unexpired at the date of issue of the concurrent writ.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2427/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:33.369237+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."
}