Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Rules 2004—Form 21
(see s 57 (1))
Third-party notice
To the third party:
The defendant claims against your contribution towards or indemnity for any judgment recovered against him or her by the plaintiff in the proceedings (or specify any other relief or remedy claimed relating to or connected with the subject of the proceedings) for the following reasons:
1.

2.	} (plead as required by the Act )	
You have the same rights, and are subject to the same liabilities, in respect of the proceedings as you would have had and been subject to if you had been sued in separate proceedings by the defendant.
You are liable to suffer judgment unless notice of the grounds of your defence, prepared in accordance with the Act, is filed with the Registrar within 21 days after service of this third-party notice upon you.  The notice must include any grounds on which you dispute the plaintiff’s claim against the defendant or the defendant’s claim against you.

Endnotes
1	This form was originally in the Magistrates Court (Civil Jurisdiction) Act 1982 (the authorising Act), schedule 1.  Under amendments made by the Legislation (Consequential Amendments) Act 2001, the form was omitted from the authorising Act and became a form approved under section 471 of that Act (see amdt 1.2791, amdt 1.2793).
2	Under the Court Procedures Act 2004 A2004-59, pt 8, this form became a form approved under that Act

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