Hong Kong Ordinances

DISTRICT COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 72D

Orders for interim payment

(1) The Rules Committee may make rules of court for the circumstances in which
the Court may order a party to pending proceedings to make an interim payment
of the amount specified in the order, either by payment into court or (if the
order provides) by paying it to another party to the proceedings.

(2) The rules made under subsection (1) may enable a party to proceedings who
has made an interim payment under an order to recover the whole or part of the
amount of the payment in the circumstances, and from the party to the
proceedings, determined under the rules.

(3) Rules made under this section may include incidental, supplementary and
consequential provisions that the Rules Committee considers expedient.

(4) This section does not affect the exercise of any power relating to costs,
including any power to make rules of court relating to costs.

(5) In this section, "interim payment" (中期付款) means a payment on
account of any damages, debt or other sum (excluding any costs) which a party
may be held liable to pay to or for the benefit of another party to the
proceedings if a final judgment or order of the Court in the proceedings is
given or made in favour of that other party.

(6) This section binds the Government so far as any proceedings to which this
section is applicable can be brought by or against the Government in
accordance with the Crown Proceedings Ordinance ( Cap 300). (Added 28 of 2000
s. 41)

"interim payment" (中期付款)