SCHEDULE 1The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) 1980

COMMENCEMENT AND PROGRESS OF PROCEEDINGS

ORDER 11SERVICE OF PROCESS, ETC., OUT OF TIIE JURISDICTION

Application for, and grant of, leave to serve writ out of jurisdiction4

1

An application for the grant of leave under rule 1 or 2 must be supported by an affidavit stating the grounds on which the application is made and that, it) the deponent's belief, the plaintiff has a good cause of action, and showing in what place or country the defendant is, or probably may be found.

2

No such leave shall be granted unless it shall be made sufficiently to appear to the Court that the case is a proper one for service out of the jurisdiction under this Order.

3

Where the application is for the grant of leave under rule 1 to serve a writ in England and Wales or Scotland, if it appears to the Court that there may be a concurrent remedy there, the Court, in deciding whether to grant leave, shall have regard to the comparative cost and convenience of proceeding there or in Northern Ireland, and (where that is relevant) to the powers and jurisdiction of the county courts in England and Wales or of the sheriff's or small debts courts in Scotland.

4

An order granting under rule 1 or 2 leave to serve a writ, or notice of a writ, out of the jurisdiction must limit a time within which the defendant to be served must enter an appearance.