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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-writ-and-appearance-1979/article-28",
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  "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/28",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Order 28, rule 5 (2), for the words from “(except a defendant” to “with the summons)” there shall be substituted the words “(except, unless the Court otherwise directs, a defendant who, in the case of a summons in Form No. 8 in Appendix A, has failed to acknowledge service of the summons or, in the case of a summons in Form No. 10 in Appendix A, has not been served with the summons)”.",
  "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/28",
    "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."
}