{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984/rule-90.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1984/225",
  "legislation_title": "Magistrates’ Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/magistrates-courts-rules-northern-ireland-1984",
  "path": "rule/90",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Tender",
  "text": "(1) Where the defence is a tender before action brought, such defence shall not be available unless the defendant lodges with the clerk of petty sessions, at least two days before the hearing, the amount alleged to have been tendered and serves notice of such lodgment on the plaintiff.\n(2) At the time of the making of an order in a proceeding where the amount of the tender has been lodged with the clerk, the court shall in addition order that the amount lodged be paid out to the parties upon such conditions and in such manner as it may think fit.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1984/225/rule/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:32:12.928261+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."
}