The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Revision) 1980

Issue and service of, and entry of appearance to, third party notice

3.—(1) The order granting leave to issue a third party notice may contain directions as to the period within which the notice is to be issued.

(2) There must be served with every third party notice a copy of the writ or originating summons by which the action was begun and of the pleadings (if any) served in the action.

(3) An appearance to a third party notice may be entered in the appropriate office.

(4) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this rule, the following provisions of these Rules, namely, Order 6, rule 6(2), (3), (4) and (6), Order 10, Order 11 (except rule 3), Order 12, Order 21 and Order 75, rule 4, shall apply in relation to a third party notice and to the proceedings begun thereby as if—

(a) the third party notice were a writ and the proceedings begun thereby an action, and

(b) the defendant issuing the third party notice were a plaintiff and the person against whom it is issued a defendant in that action.