UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 41.15 Discharge of registrar

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 41.15

41.15 Discharge of registrar

(cf SCR Part 50, rule 8)

(1) Any person entitled to payment of funds in court may request the registrar to send the person a cheque for the payment to a specified address.

(2) Payment, by the bank on which it is drawn, of a cheque sent in accordance with such a request is taken to be a discharge to the registrar for the amount of the payment.

(3) Subject to subrule (2), any direction, cheque or other document for the payment of money out of court is taken, when signed by the payee, to be a discharge to the registrar for the amount of the payment.

(4) Nothing in subrule (2) or (3)--

(a) prevents the registrar from requiring a receipt for any payment made by the registrar, or

(b) affects the operation of the Stamp Duties Act 1920 or the Duties Act 1997 .