{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-disciplinary-proceedings-rules-2019/article-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-disciplinary-proceedings-rules-2019/article-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1185",
  "legislation_title": "The Solicitors (Disciplinary Proceedings) Rules 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-disciplinary-proceedings-rules-2019",
  "path": "article/46",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Substituted service by the applicant",
  "text": "(1) If the applicant believes that there is no reasonable prospect of being able to effect service on a respondent using the methods set out in rule 44 it may apply to the Tribunal for a direction for substituted service. This application must be made in writing and set out—\n(a) the steps that have been taken to establish the address, place of business or email address of the respondent; and\n(b) the proposed alternative method of service.\n(2) The application may be determined by the Tribunal, a panel, a single solicitor member or a clerk, who may make a direction for substituted service if it is in the interests of justice to do so.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 46 in force at 25.11.2019, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1185/article/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:07.129208+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."
}