(Vol. VII. p. 44).
Interest
on debts,
damages and costa,
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(2) Subject to the provisions of this section, any reference in this Part of this Ordinance to civil proceedings against the Crown shall be construed as a reference to the following proceedings only-
(a) proceedings for the enforcement or vindication of any right or the obtaining of any relief which, if this Ordinance had not been passed, might have been enforced or vindicated or obtained by any such proceedings as are mentioned in paragraph 2 of the First Schedule to this Ordinance;
(b) proceedings for the enforcement or vindication of any right or the obtaining of any relief which, if this Ordinance had not been passed, might have been enforced or vindicated or obtained by any action against the Attorney General, any Government department or any officer of the Crown as such; and
(c) all such proceedings as any person is entitled to bring
against the Crown by virtue of this Ordinance ; and the expression "civil proceedings by or against the Crown* shall be construed accordingly.
(3) Notwithstanding anything in the preceding provisions of this section, the provisions of this Part of this Ordinance shall not have effect with respect to any of the following proceedings, that is to say-
(a) proceedings brought by the Attorney General on the
relation of some other person;
(b) proceedings by or against the Official Trustee;
(c) proceedings by the Attorney General or other person under Order XXX, rules 15 and 16 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
PART (V.
Judgments and Execution.
20. (1) The provisions of any law relating to the payment of interest on judgment debts in proceedings between subjects shall apply to judgment debts due from or to the Crown.
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(2) Where any costs are awarded to or against the Crown in the Supreme Court, interest shall be payable upon those costs unless the court otherwise orders, and any interest sa payable shall be at the same rate as that at which interest is payable upon judgment debts due from or to the Crown.
(3) The provisions of any law empowering a Court of Record to award interest on debts and damages shall apply to judgments given in the proceedings by and against the Crown.
(4) This section shall apply both in relation to proceedings pending at the commencement of this Ordinance and in relation to proceedings instituted thereafter.
21. (1) Where in any civil proceedings by or against the Satisfac- Crown, or in any proceedings such as in England are taken on tion of
orders the Crown side of the Queen's Bench Division of Her Majesty's against High Court of Justice, or in connexion with any arbitration to
the Crown. which the Crown is a party, any order (including an order for costs) is made by any court in favour of any person against the Crown or against a Government department or against an officer of the Crown as such, the proper officer of the court shall, or an application in that behalf made by or on behalf of that person at any time after the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of the order or, in case the order provides for the payment of costs and the costs require to be taxed, at any time after the costs have been taxed, whichever is the later, issue to that person a certificate in the prescribed form containing particulars of the order:
Provided that, if the court so directs, a separate certificate shall be issued with respect to the costs (if any) ordered to be paid to the applicant.
(2) A copy of any certificate issued under this section may be served by the person in whose favour the order is made upon the Attorney General.
(3) If the order provides for the payment of any money by way of damages or otherwise, or of any costs, the certificate shall state the amount so payable, and the Accountant General shall, subject as hereinafter provided, pay to the person entitled or to his solicitor the amount appearing by the certificate to be due to him together with the interest, if any, lawfully due thereon: