The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009

Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998

11.  In rule 55.10—

(a) for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) Within 5 days of receiving notification of the date of the hearing by the court, the claimant must send a notice to—

(a) the property, addressed to “the tenant or the occupier”; and

(b) the housing department of the local authority within which the property is located.”;

(b) in paragraph (3), for “paragraph (2)” substitute “paragraph (2)(a)”;

(c) after paragraph (3) insert—

“(3A) The notice referred to in paragraph 2(b) must contain the information in paragraph (3) and must state the full address of the property.”; and

(d) in paragraph (4)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a) for “notice” substitute “notices”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) for “he has served it” substitute “they have been sent”.