(2) These Rules shall be construed together with the Rules of the Superior Courts.

(3) The Rules of the Superior Courts as amended by these Rules may be cited as the Rules of the Superior Courts 1986 to 2013.

2. These Rules shall apply only to and in any action in which, on the date on which these Rules come into force, a defence has not been delivered or, where the defendant is not required to deliver a defence, an affidavit in answer to the plaintiff's claim has not been filed and delivered. Any action in which, on the date on which these Rules come into force, a defence has been delivered or, where the defendant is not required to deliver a defence, an affidavit in answer to the plaintiff's claim has been filed and delivered, shall continue and may be determined and decided as if these Rules had not come into force.

3. The Rules of the Superior Courts are amended:

(i) by the substitution for rule 7 of Order 22 of the following rule:

“(1) The fact that money has been paid into Court under any of the preceding rules of this Order shall not be stated in the defence, or where the defendant is not required to deliver a defence, in the affidavit filed in answer to the plaintiff's claim.

(2) Except in an action to which a defence of tender before action is pleaded, no communication shall be made either of the fact that money has been paid into Court or of the amount so paid into Court:

(a) to the Judge at the trial of any action until all questions of liability and amount of debt or damages have been decided, or

(b) to the jury where an action is tried by a Judge with a jury.

(3) Notwithstanding sub-rules (1) and (2), a Judge may, before or at the trial of an action, enquire for good or sufficient reason as to whether, and if so in what amount, a payment has been made into Court under the preceding rules of this Order.”, and

(ii) by the substitution for sub-rule (3) of rule 14 of Order 22 of the following sub-rule:

“(3) Any tender offer of payment made hereunder shall be deemed to be a lodgment and to have the same effect as a lodgment and all the foregoing provisions of Order 22 shall apply mutatis mutandis to such tender offers as regards time for making and accepting same, and non-disclosure of the fact or amount of the tender offer, as they apply to a lodgment.”