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FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 239

239 .         Interest on moneys ordered to be paid — FLA s. 117B

        (1)         Subject to any order made by a court under subsection (2), where a court makes an order for the payment of money (other than an order for the payment by way of maintenance of a periodic sum), interest is payable, at the rate prescribed by the rules, from —

            (a)         the date on which the order is made; or

            (b)         the date on which the order takes effect,

                whichever is later, on so much of the money as is from time to time unpaid.

        (2)         Where a court makes an order for the payment of money as mentioned in subsection (1), it may order that interest is not payable on the money payable under the first-mentioned order or may order —

            (a)         that interest is payable at a rate specified in the order, being a rate other than the rate prescribed by the rules; or

            (b)         that interest is payable from the date specified in the order, being a date other than the date from which the interest would be payable under subsection (1).



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