Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998
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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”.