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LOCAL COURT (CIVIL PROCEDURE) ACT 1989 - SECT 27

Instalment order

    (1)     The Court may order that a judgment debtor pay the amount of a judgment debt then owing by instalments.

    (2)     An instalment order may be made:

        (a)     by the Court of its own motion; or

        (b)     subject to the Rules, on the application of a judgment creditor or judgment debtor.

    (3)     While an instalment order is being complied with, it operates as a stay of enforcement of the judgment concerned.

    (4)     Failure to comply with an instalment order does not terminate the stay of enforcement referred to in subsection (3) until the failure has continued for 14 days.



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