District Court (Service in licensing matters) Rules 2020.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Rules, which shall come into operation on the 10th day of November 2020, may be cited as the District Court (Service in licensing matters) Rules 2020.
(2) These Rules shall be construed together with the District Court Rules 1997 ( S.I. No. 93 of 1997 ) and all other District Court Rules.
(3) The District Court Rules as amended by these Rules may be cited as the District Court Rules 1997 to 2020.
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paragraphs: The District Court Rules 1997 ( S.I. No. 93 of 1997 ) are amended by the insertion in Order 41, immediately following rule 20, of the following rule:
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paragraphs: (1) This rule applies to licensing matters within the original jurisdiction of the Court.
(2) In this rule:
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of these Rules, and subject to compliance by the permitted user with the terms and conditions of use of the electronic system, a party to or person interested in any licensing matter before the Court or intended to be brought before the Court (or a solicitor acting for such party or person) may be designated as a permitted user and when so designated is thereby permitted:
(i) to deliver to or file or lodge with the Clerk by electronic means through the electronic system any application which may be made to the Court and any document which may be delivered, filed or lodged in any such application,
(ii) to serve by electronic means through the electronic system any document or notice concerning such application upon any person required by statute or these Rules to be served with, or put on notice of, any such application, document or notice, provided that: (a) such service may be effected by the Clerk (or by a member of the staff of the Courts Service acting with the authority of the Clerk) on behalf of the person serving such document or notice, and (b) such service is deemed not to be effective unless the person to be served is a permitted user.
(4) Any other document or information concerning such application may be transmitted to a permitted user by or on behalf of the Court or Clerk by electronic means through the electronic system.
(5) A document transmitted by electronic means through the electronic system may be authenticated, and the identity of the person in whose name it has issued may be verified, by being—
(a) transmitted from an information system or e-mail address of a permitted user, accepted for the purpose of this rule by the Courts Service, or
(b) transmitted to or created within the electronic system by or on behalf of the Clerk or by a permitted user,
(6) If a permitted user is not complying with the terms and conditions (or any of them), permission to use the electronic system may be withdrawn in respect of that user.
(7) An originating notice of application submitted for issue by electronic means in accordance with this rule is deemed to be issued when it has been assigned a record number and/or a return date.
(8) Where an originating notice of application or a notice of motion is issued in accordance with the preceding provisions of this rule,
(a) a print or copy of the originating notice of application or notice of motion as transmitted for issue shall, when issued, be treated as the original of that document, and
(b) the Clerk may certify any printed version of such document as a certified copy of the original.”