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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-interest-on-judgment-debts-order-1991/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1184",
  "legislation_title": "The County Courts (Interest on Judgment Debts) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-courts-interest-on-judgment-debts-order-1991",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Rate of interest",
  "text": "Where a judgment debt carries interest, the rate of interest shallbe the rate for the time being specified in section 17 of the JudgmentsAct 1838.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1838 c. 110; power to amend the rate of interestspecified in section 17 was conferred by the Administration of JusticeAct 1970 (c. 31), section 44 and the relevant amending instrument is S.I.1985/437 which provides for a rate of 15 per cent per annum."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2516",
      "affecting_title": "The County Courts (Interest on Judgment Debts) (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/1773",
      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (County Court and Family Court: Consequential Provision) Order 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/1773",
      "affecting_title": "The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (County Court and Family Court: Consequential Provision) Order 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1184/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:44:14.056495+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."
}