COUNTY COURT ACT 1958 - SECT 73 Judgments to be final

COUNTY COURT ACT 1958 - SECT 73

S. 73(1) amended by Nos 7705 s. 9(o), 19/1989 s. 12(a)(i)(ii).

    (1)     Every judgment and order made in any civil proceeding by the court, except as in this Act provided, shall be final and conclusive between the parties.

S. 73(2) repealed by No. 19/1989 s. 12(b).

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S. 73(3) amended by No. 19/1989 s. 12(c)(i)(ii).

    (3)     The court may also in every case whatever, and as often as it thinks fit, order a new trial to be had upon such terms as it thinks reasonable, and may in the meantime stay proceedings.

S. 73(3A) inserted by No. 16/1986 s. 16(b), amended by No. 19/1989 s. 12(d).

    (3A)     Subsection (3) does not apply so as to authorize the court to order a new trial in civil proceedings in which a jury has given a verdict.

S. 73(4) inserted by No. 9633 s. 7, amended by Nos 9967 s. 9, 19/1989 s. 12(e)(i)–(iii), 35/1996

s. 453(Sch. 1 item 15.12 (a)(b)).

    (4)     Every judgment debt shall carry interest at the rate for the time being fixed under section 2 of the Penalty Interest Rates Act 1983 from the time the judgment is entered or the order made or, in the case of costs to be assessed, from the assessment of those costs or such other day as the court orders, and the amount of the interest shall be stated in the body of and may be seized under a warrant of execution on such judgment.

No. 6117 s. 74.