Article 10 Curtailment of county courts' banking function

For Order 11, rule 1(5) there shall be substituted the following–

“(5)

Where two or more causes of action are joined in the action, a payment under paragraph (1) shall be accompanied by a notice–

(a)

stating that the payment is made in respect of all those causes of action or specifying the cause or causes of action in respect of which the payment is made; and

(b)

where the defendant desires to make separate payments in respect of any two or more of the causes of action, specifying the sum paid in respect of each,

and, for the purposes of this paragraph, a payment stated (in whatever terms) to be made in satisfaction of the plaintiff’s claim shall, subject to paragraph (6), be treated as being made in satisfaction of all the causes of action.”.