[2F Variation of court-ordered periodical payments]
Damages Act 1996 (1996 c 48) | Legislation

[2F  Variation of court-ordered periodical payments]

[(1)     A court which has made an order under which damages for future pecuniary loss are wholly or partly to take the form of periodical payments may vary the order.

(2)     In varying the order, the court may—

(a)     alter the terms on which periodical payments in respect of future pecuniary loss are to be paid, in particular—

(i)     the amount that is to be paid as a periodical payment,

(ii)     the basis (if any) on which the amount of the payments is to adjust to reflect inflation,

(iii)     the frequency

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