{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-writ-and-appearance-1979/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-writ-and-appearance-1979/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1979/1716",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Writ and Appearance) 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-writ-and-appearance-1979",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Order 1, rule 4, shall be amended as follows:—\n(1) In paragraph (1) after the definition of “the Northern area” there shall be inserted the following definition:—\n“ “notice of intention to defend” means an acknowledgment of service containing a statement to the effect that the person by whom or on whose behalf it is signed intends to contest the proceedings to which the acknowledgment relates; ”.\n(2) After paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—\n“(3) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to acknowledging service of a document or giving notice of intention to defend any proceedings is a reference to lodging in the appropriate court office an acknowledgment of service of that document or, as the case may be, a notice of intention to defend those proceedings.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1716/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:07:56.027162+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."
}