# The Rules of the Supreme Court (Writ and Appearance) 1979, Article 32


Order 75, rule 3, shall be amended as follows:—
(1) In paragraph (1) the words “or 2” and “whichever is appropriate” shall be omitted.
(2) The following paragraphs shall be inserted after paragraph (1):—
“(2) The writ by which an Admiralty action in personam is begun must be in Form No. 1 in Appendix A with the following modifications:—
(a) in the heading after the word “Division” there shall be inserted the words “Admiralty Court”;
(b) where the writ is issued out of the Admiralty registry, for the references to the number of the action and to the Central Office there shall be substituted references to the folio number and to the Admiralty registry respectively.
(3) The writ by which a limitation action is begun must be in Form No. 2 in Appendix B and notice of such a writ must be in Form No. 2A in Appendix B.”
(3) The existing paragraph (2) shall stand as paragraph (4) and at the beginning of that paragraph there shall be inserted the words “Subject to the following paragraphs”.
(4) After paragraph (4) as so re-numbered there shall be added the following paragraphs:—
“(5) An acknowledgment of service in an action in rem or a limitation action shall be in Form No. 2B in Appendix B.
(6) A defendant to an action in rem in which the writ has not been served, or a defendant to a limitation action who has not been served with the writ, may, if he desires to take part in the proceedings, acknowledge the issue of the writ by handing in at, or sending to, the appropriate office an acknowledgment of issue in the same form as an acknowledgment of service but with the substitution for the references therein to service of references to issue of the writ.
(7) These rules shall apply, with the necessary modifications, in relation to an acknowledgment of issue or service in Form No. 2B in Appendix B as they apply in relation to an acknowledgment of service in Form No. 14 in Appendix A which contains a statement to the effect that the defendant intends to contest the proceedings to which the acknowledgment relates”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1979/1716/article/32 (the official version)
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