{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1989/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1989/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/236",
  "legislation_title": "The County Court (Amendment) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-court-amendment-rules-1989",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Variation of payment",
  "text": "In Order 22, for rule 10(4), (5) and (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs–\n“(4) The debtor may apply to the court for an order that the money, if payable in one sum, be paid at a later date than that on which it is due or by instalments or, if the money is already payable by instalments, that it be paid by smaller instalments.\n(5) An application under paragraph (4) shall be sent in writing to the proper officer who shall notify the judgment creditor of the application and its terms, and require him to notify the court in writing, within 14 days of service of notification upon him, of any objection he may have to the granting of the application.\n(6) If the judgment creditor does not notify the court of any objection within the time stated the judge or registrar shall grant the application without the attendance of the parties or fix a date under paragraph (7).\n(7) Where the judgment creditor does notify the court of an objection within the time stated, or where the judge or registrar does not determine the application under paragraph (6), the proper officer shall fix a day for the hearing of the application and shall give to the judgment creditor and to the debtor not less than 8 days' notice of the day so fixed.\n(8) An application under paragraph (3) or (6) may be made to the registrar unless the original judgment or order was given or made by the judge and the judge has directed that any application to vary it be made to the judge.\n(9) Any order made under this rule shall be entered in the records of the court and may be varied from time to time by a subsequent order made under this rule.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/236/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:49:47.442227+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."
}