County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980

Practice and procedure N.I.

66.—(1) County court rules may provide for the practice and procedure to be followed upon an application to state a case under Article 61 up to and including the transmission of the case to the Master (Queen's Bench and Appeals).

(2) Without prejudice to section 21 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 [1954 c.33] or to section 55 of the Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 [1978 c.23] but subject to the provisions of this Part, rules of court may provide for—

(a) the lodgment of appeals under Article 60 (including the manner in which and the persons upon whom notice of appeal is to be served);

(b) the manner in, and time within, which an application to state a case under Article 62 is to be made, and the case is to be prepared;

(c) the security to be given by an appellant for the due prosecution of an appeal (including an appeal by way of case stated other than where the appellant has been directed to enter into a recognizance under Article 63);

(d) the stay of execution or suspension of a decree pending an appeal (including an appeal by way of case stated);

(e) the abandonment of such an appeal;

(f) the costs which may be awarded upon the hearing or are to be recoverable upon the abandonment of such an appeal;

(g) any other matter incidental to such an appeal.