SUPREME COURT ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 4).
THE RULES OF THE SUPREME COURT
(AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) RULES 1968.
We, the Rules Committee of the Supreme Court, being the authority having for the time being power under section 38 of the Supreme Court Ordinance to make, amend or revoke rules regula- ting the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, hereby exercise those powers as follows-
1. These rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Citation, Court (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1968.
2. Order 6 of the principal rules is amended by adding the following new rule after rule 2-
"Interest on Judgment.
2A. When the action is for a sum of money due to the plaintiff the court may in the judgment order interest at such rate as the court may think proper to be paid on the principal sum adjudged from the comunencement of the action to the date of the judgment, in addition to any interest adjudged on such principal sum for any period prior to the commencement of the action; and further interest, at such rate as may for the time being be fixed by the court, shall be recoverable on the aggregate sum so adjudged, from the date of the judgment to the date of payment.".
Made this 1st day of May 1968.
Amendment of Order 6.
IVO RIGBY,
Acting Chief Justice.
A. D. SCHOLES,
Acting Senior Puisne Judge.
W. A. BLAIR-Kerr, Puise Judge.
G. G. BRIGGS,
Puisne Judge.