Article 8 Curtailment of county courts' banking function

For Order 11, rule 1(1) and (2), there shall be substituted the following–

“(1)

In any action for debt or damages any defendant may at any time before judgment pay a sum of money (being a sum less than that which is claimed) into court in satisfaction of the plaintiff’s cause of action or, where two or more causes of action are joined in the action, in satisfaction of any or all of those causes of action and, where such a payment is made, the defendant shall state that the money is paid in satisfaction of the said cause or causes of action.”.