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36.5—(1) This rule applies to a claim for damages for personal injury which is or includes a claim for future pecuniary loss.
(2) An offer to settle such a claim will not have the consequences set out in rules 36.10, 36.11 and 36.14 unless it is made by way of a Part 36 offer under this rule.
(3) A Part 36 offer to which this rule applies may contain an offer to pay, or an offer to accept—
(a)the whole or part of the damages for future pecuniary loss in the form of—
(i)a lump sum; or
(ii)periodical payments; or
(iii)both a lump sum and periodical payments;
(b)the whole or part of any other damages in the form of a lump sum.
(4) A Part 36 offer to which this rule applies—
(a)must state the amount of any offer to pay the whole or part of any damages in the form of a lump sum;
(b)may state—
(i)what part of the lump sum, if any, relates to damages for future pecuniary loss; and
(ii)what part relates to other damages to be accepted in the form of a lump sum;
(c)must state what part of the offer relates to damages for future pecuniary loss to be paid or accepted in the form of periodical payments and must specify—
(i)the amount and duration of the periodical payments;
(ii)the amount of any payments for substantial capital purchases and when they are to be made; and
(iii)that each amount is to vary by reference to the retail prices index (or to some other named index, or that it is not to vary by reference to any index); and
(d)must state either that any damages which take the form of periodical payments will be funded in a way which ensures that the continuity of payment is reasonably secure in accordance with section 2(4) of the Damages Act 1996 or how such damages are to be paid and how the continuity of their payment is to be secured.
(5) Rule 36.4 applies to the extent that a Part 36 offer by a defendant under this rule includes an offer to pay all or part of any damages in the form of a lump sum.
(6) Where the offeror makes a Part 36 offer to which this rule applies and which offers to pay or to accept damages in the form of both a lump sum and periodical payments, the offeree may only give notice of acceptance of the offer as a whole.
(7) If the offeree accepts a Part 36 offer which includes payment of any part of the damages in the form of periodical payments, the claimant must, within 7 days of the date of acceptance, apply to the court for an order for an award of damages in the form of periodical payments under rule 41.8.
(A practice direction supplementing Part 41 contains information about periodical payments under the Damages Act 1996)]
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 36 substituted (6.4.2007) by The Civil Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2006 (S.I. 2006/3435), rule 1, Sch. 1 (with rule 7(2)-(7))
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