s.20Orders for interim payment
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Section 20Part 0 —

Orders for interim payment

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The power to make Rules under section 19 shall include power to make provision for enabling the Court, in such circumstances as may be specified in such Rules, to make an order requiring a party to any proceedings pending before it make an interim payment of such amount as may be specified in the order, either by payment into Court or (if the order so provides) by paying it to another party to the proceedings.
Rules made under subsection (1) may include —
provision for enabling the party who, in pursuance of such order, has made an interim payment to recover the whole or part of the amount thereof in such circumstances as may be determined in accordance with the Rules; and
such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as the Rules Committee may consider necessary or expedient.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the exercise of any power relating to costs, including any power to make Rules relating to costs.
In this section —
"interim payment" means a payment on account of any damages, debt or other sum (excluding any costs) which a party to any proceedings may be held liable to pay to or for the benefit of another party to the proceedings if a final judgment or order of the Court in the proceedings is given or made in favour of that other party; and
a reference to a party to any proceedings includes a reference to any person who for the purposes of those proceedings acts as next friend or guardian of a party to the proceedings.
Rules made under this section shall bind the Crown only insofar as any proceedings to which it is applicable can be brought by or against the Crown in accordance with the Crown Proceedings Act (2026 Revision).

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interim payment

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