{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1988/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1988/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/278",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Oral examination proceedings",
  "text": "Order 25, rule 3 shall be further amended by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new paragraphs—\n“(5A) Where an examination has been adjourned, the judgment creditor, if requested to do so by the person to be examined not less than 7 days before the day fixed for the adjourned examination, shall pay to him a sum reasonably sufficient to cover his expenses in travelling to and from the court, unless such a sum was paid to him at the time of service of the order for oral examination.\n(5B) The judgment creditor shall, not more than 4 days before the day fixed for the adjourned examination, file a certificate stating either that no request has been made under paragraph (5A) or that a sum has been paid in accordance with such a request.\n(5C) Where the person to be examined has made a request under paragraph (5A), he shall not be committed to prison under Order 29, rule 1(1) for having failed to attend at the time and place fixed for the adjourned examination unless the judgment creditor has paid to him a sum reasonably sufficient to cover his travelling expenses before the day fixed for the adjourned examination.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/278/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:11:28.884922+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."
}