{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970/section-44A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970/section-44A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1970/31",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1970",
  "path": "section/44A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44A",
  "heading": "Interest on judgment debts expressed in currencies other than sterling.",
  "text": "(1) Where a judgment is given for a sum expressed in a currency other than sterling and the judgment debt is one to which section 17 of the Judgments Act 1838 applies, the court may order that the interest rate applicable to the debt shall be such rate as the court thinks fit.\n(2) 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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 44A inserted (1.11.1996) by 1995 c. 42, s. 1(1)(2); S.I. 1996/2515, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 44A modified (with effect in accordance with s. 52(12) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2015 (c. 33), s. 52(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/31/section/44A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:09.937865+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}