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When is the deadline for comply with a judgment or order for the payment of money?

Party ordered to pay must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180. Within fourteen days. The identified act is to comply with the money judgment or order. An actual different date, installments, a different rule or practice direction, or a stay overrides this ordinary period. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

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Period
Within fourteen days
Trigger
Actual judgment or order
Rule
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

The maintained official ADGM index links the consolidated Rules and Amendment No. 1 of 2025, reissued October 17, 2025. Current division, Fast Track allocation, practice directions and orders remain material. This guide does not assume a historical matter uses that edition.

Source guide · No automated date

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Source guide. Within fourteen days. Establish actual judgment or order and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.

ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

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When is the deadline for comply with a judgment or order for the payment of money?

Party ordered to pay must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180. Within fourteen days. The identified act is to comply with the money judgment or order. An actual different date, installments, a different rule or practice direction, or a stay overrides this ordinary period. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.

Responsible actor. Party ordered to pay.

Actual judgment or order

An actual different date, installments, a different rule or practice direction, or a stay overrides this ordinary period.

Source guide. Within fourteen days. Establish actual judgment or order and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.

ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

How does this provision count time?

  1. Within fourteen days
  2. ADGM Rule 6 counts days as clear days, excluding the start and an event-defined end. For periods of five days or less, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays do not count. Actual month periods and operative events need their own source review.
  3. Current Rule 7(5), as amended on October 17, 2025, concerns a specified act whose period ends on a closed registry day, subject to the relevant practice direction. The amendment removed the old restriction to acts at the registry. Minimum notice, status and agreed caps remain distinct; no automatic final date is shown.

ADGM Rule 6 counts days as clear days, excluding the start and an event-defined end. For periods of five days or less, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays do not count. Actual month periods and operative events need their own source review.

Current Rule 7(5), as amended on October 17, 2025, concerns a specified act whose period ends on a closed registry day, subject to the relevant practice direction. The amendment removed the old restriction to acts at the registry. Minimum notice, status and agreed caps remain distinct; no automatic final date is shown.

ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

Which facts prevent one automatic date?

Source guide. Within fourteen days. Establish actual judgment or order and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.

ResultRead the operative provision and establish the applicable branch.

Which conditions and exceptions apply?

Applicable statutory or procedural branch
An actual different date, installments, a different rule or practice direction, or a stay overrides this ordinary period.
Applicable edition and transition
The maintained official ADGM index links the consolidated Rules and Amendment No. 1 of 2025, reissued October 17, 2025. Current division, Fast Track allocation, practice directions and orders remain material. This guide does not assume a historical matter uses that edition.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180
  • Source guide. Within fourteen days. Establish actual judgment or order and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
  • ADGM accepted Part 18 offer payment concerns pay the accepted sum to the claimant from actual acceptance, with within fourteen days of acceptance. ADGM costs payment after an order or certificate concerns pay the costs amount from actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate, with within fourteen days of the applicable instrument. ADGM Part 18 offer minimum acceptance period concerns specify the acceptance period and required consequences from actual offer terms and actual trial timing, with not less than twenty-one days. Those events do not replace actual judgment or order for this step.

What must the responsible actor complete?

Questions about this procedure

When is the deadline for comply with a judgment or order for the payment of money?

What period governs ADGM money judgment payment?

Within fourteen days. ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180 supplies this period. It does not by itself establish the actual event or a final completion date.

ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

Which event controls ADGM money judgment payment?

Establish actual judgment or order. An actual different date, installments, a different rule or practice direction, or a stay overrides this ordinary period. The catalog date label does not prove this event.

ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

Who completes the step for ADGM money judgment payment?

Party ordered to pay. The source identifies the act as comply with the money judgment or order. Filing, service, payment, a minimum notice and a stay status must remain distinct.

ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

Which conditions change ADGM money judgment payment?

An actual different date, installments, a different rule or practice direction, or a stay overrides this ordinary period. The maintained official ADGM index links the consolidated Rules and Amendment No. 1 of 2025, reissued October 17, 2025. Current division, Fast Track allocation, practice directions and orders remain material. This guide does not assume a historical matter uses that edition.

ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

How are time and closure treated for ADGM money judgment payment?

ADGM Rule 6 counts days as clear days, excluding the start and an event-defined end. For periods of five days or less, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays do not count. Actual month periods and operative events need their own source review. Current Rule 7(5), as amended on October 17, 2025, concerns a specified act whose period ends on a closed registry day, subject to the relevant practice direction. The amendment removed the old restriction to acts at the registry. Minimum notice, status and agreed caps remain distinct; no automatic final date is shown.

ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

Why does ADGM money judgment payment show no final date?

The source period is retained, but the actual actual judgment or order and applicable completion route need checking against your case. Check the actual documents and orders. No paid calculation is available.

ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180

Official sources and review

Provisions used (2)
Provisions used in this guide
ProvisionPurpose
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 21, rule 180Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
ADGM Rules6-7 with Amendment No. 1 of 2025 paragraph4Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
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