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This Order may be cited as the County Courts (Interest on Judgment Debts) (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st November 1996.
2 
The following shall be substituted for Article 5 of the County Courts (Interest on Judgment Debts) Order 1991.“
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(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where a judgment debt carries interest the rate of interest shall be the rate for the time being specified in section 17 of the Judgments Act 1838.
(2) Where a judgment debt carries interest and has been given for a sum expressed in a currency other than sterling, a county court may order that the rate of interest shall be such rate as the court thinks fit (instead of the rate otherwise applicable under paragraph (1)) and, where the court makes such an order, section 17 of the Judgments Act 1838 shall have effect in relation to the judgment debt as if the rate specified in the order were substituted for the rate specified in that section.”
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Nothing in this Order shall apply in relation to a judgment or order given before 1st November 1996.
Mackay of Clashfern, C.
Dated 26th September 1996We concur,
Patrick McLoughlin
Bowen Wells
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
Dated 2nd October 1996