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MONEYLENDERS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1933 - SECT 19

Rules as to particulars on writs, etc., restriction on entering judgment and issue of writs of execution.

19.(1) The rule-making authority may make rules for the following purposes:

(a)for prescribing the particulars to be given on any writ, petition or other
proceeding instituted by a moneylender for the recovery of money lent by him
or any interest thereon; and

(b)for providing that, within twelve months from the date of any warrant of
attorney given to, or any writ, petition or other proceedings instituted by, a
moneylender for the recovery of money lent by him or any interest thereon,
judgment shall not be entered thereon without an order of the court or judge;
and

(c)for providing that, where after the expiration of twelve months from the
date of any such warrant of attorney judgment has been entered thereon, no
writ of execution shall issue without an order of the court or judge.

Upon the making of such rules the following provisions of this section shall
come into operation.

(2) Any judgment or order obtained by a moneylender for the recovery of money
lent by him or any interest thereon on foot of a writ, petition or other
proceeding which does not comply with the provisions of the rules made under
paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of this section, shall be void.

(3) Upon any application for either of the orders mentioned in paragraph (b)
or paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) of this section the court or judge shall
have all the powers conferred by section one of the Moneylenders Act, 1900,
with respect to the re-opening of the transactions of moneylenders.


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