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When is the deadline for comply with an order for the payment of costs?
Party ordered to pay costs must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 24, rule 201. Within fourteen days of the applicable instrument. The identified act is to pay the costs amount. The Court may specify another date. Do not use the original order where the amount was first fixed by a later certificate. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
- Period
- Within fourteen days of the applicable instrument
- Trigger
- Actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate
- Rule
- ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 24, rule 201
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
Check the applicable procedure
Source guide. Within fourteen days of the applicable instrument. Establish actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
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When is the deadline for comply with an order for the payment of costs?
Party ordered to pay costs must check ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 24, rule 201. Within fourteen days of the applicable instrument. The identified act is to pay the costs amount. The Court may specify another date. Do not use the original order where the amount was first fixed by a later certificate. This guide preserves the source boundary without a calculated final date or paid calculation.
Responsible actor. Party ordered to pay costs.
Actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate
The Court may specify another date. Do not use the original order where the amount was first fixed by a later certificate.
Source guide. Within fourteen days of the applicable instrument. Establish actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate 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 24, rule 201How does this provision count time?
- Within fourteen days of the applicable instrument
- 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 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 24, rule 201Which facts prevent one automatic date?
Source guide. Within fourteen days of the applicable instrument. Establish actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
Which conditions and exceptions apply?
- Applicable statutory or procedural branch
- The Court may specify another date. Do not use the original order where the amount was first fixed by a later certificate.
- 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.
- Source guide. Within fourteen days of the applicable instrument. Establish actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate and the applicable branch. No computed date or paid calculation is available because actual-event and completion qualifications remain unverified.
- ADGM money judgment payment concerns comply with the money judgment or order from actual judgment or order, with within fourteen days. ADGM conditional stay after written settlement notice concerns determine whether the claim has become stayed from actual written notice to the court that the proceedings settled or resolved, with one calendar month since the court was informed. ADGM accepted Part 18 offer payment concerns pay the accepted sum to the claimant from actual acceptance, with within fourteen days of acceptance. Those events do not replace actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate for this step.
What must the responsible actor complete?
Questions about this procedure
When is the deadline for comply with an order for the payment of costs?
What period governs ADGM costs payment after an order or certificate?
Within fourteen days of the applicable instrument. ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 24, rule 201 supplies this period. It does not by itself establish the actual event or a final completion date.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 24, rule 201Which event controls ADGM costs payment after an order or certificate?
Establish actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate. The Court may specify another date. Do not use the original order where the amount was first fixed by a later certificate. The catalog date label does not prove this event.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 24, rule 201Who completes the step for ADGM costs payment after an order or certificate?
Party ordered to pay costs. The source identifies the act as pay the costs amount. Filing, service, payment, a minimum notice and a stay status must remain distinct.
ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 24, rule 201Which conditions change ADGM costs payment after an order or certificate?
The Court may specify another date. Do not use the original order where the amount was first fixed by a later certificate. 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 24, rule 201How are time and closure treated for ADGM costs payment after an order or certificate?
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 24, rule 201Why does ADGM costs payment after an order or certificate show no final date?
The source period is retained, but the actual actual order stating the amount, or later assessment certificate 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 24, rule 201Official sources and review
Provisions used (2)
| Provision | Purpose |
|---|---|
| ADGM Court Procedure Rules 2016, Part 24, rule 201 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |
| ADGM Rules6-7 with Amendment No. 1 of 2025 paragraph4 | Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification |