{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-72.9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998/rule-72.9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3132",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Procedure Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-procedure-rules-1998",
  "path": "rule/72.9",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "72.9",
  "heading": "Effect of final third party order",
  "text": "(1) A final third party debt order shall be enforceable as an order to pay money.\n(2) If—\n(a) the third party pays money to the judgment creditor in compliance with a third party debt order; or\n(b) the order is enforced against him,\nthe third party shall, to the extent of the amount paid by him or realised by enforcement against him, be discharged from his debt to the judgment debtor.\n(3) Paragraph (2) applies even if the third party debt order, or the original judgment or order against the judgment debtor, is later set aside.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 72 inserted (25.3.2002) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/2792), rule 1(c), Sch. 3 (with savings in rule 24 and S.I. 2001/4015, rule 43(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 72 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2007) by The Court of Protection Rules 2007 (S.I. 2007/1744), rules 1, 184(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3132/rule/72.9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:59.276840+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."
}