Interest on Contracts

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Date Retrieved:	2024-11-26
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Page Categories:	[Contract Law]
Citation:	Interest on Contracts, CLNP 2166, <>, retrieved on 2024-11-26
Editor:	Sharvey
Last Updated:	2023/02/25

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Interest Act R.S.C., 1985, c. I-15

2 Except as otherwise provided by this Act or any other Act of Parliament, any person may stipulate for, allow and exact, on any contract or agreement whatever, any rate of interest or discount that is agreed on.

3 Whenever any interest is payable by the agreement of parties or by law, and no rate is fixed by the agreement or by law, the rate of interest shall be five per cent per annum.

4 Except as to mortgages on real property or hypothecs on immovables, whenever any interest is, by the terms of any written or printed contract, whether under seal or not, made payable at a rate or percentage per day, week, month, or at any rate or percentage for any period less than a year, no interest exceeding the rate or percentage of five per cent per annum shall be chargeable, payable or recoverable on any part of the principal money unless the contract contains an express statement of the yearly rate or percentage of interest to which the other rate or percentage is equivalent.

5 If any sum is paid on account of any interest not chargeable, payable or recoverable under section 4, the sum may be recovered back or deducted from any principal or interest payable under the contract.

Courts of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43

128 (1) A person who is entitled to an order for the payment of money is entitled to claim and have included in the order an award of interest thereon at the prejudgment interest rate, calculated from the date the cause of action arose to the date of the order. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43, s. 128 (1).

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(4) Interest shall not be awarded under subsection (1),

(a) on exemplary or punitive damages;

(b) on interest accruing under this section;

(c) on an award of costs in the proceeding;

(d) on that part of the order that represents pecuniary loss arising after the date of the order and that is identified by a finding of the court;

(e) with respect to the amount of any advance payment that has been made towards settlement of the claim, for the period after the advance payment has been made;

(f) where the order is made on consent, except by consent of the debtor; or

(g) where interest is payable by a right other than under this section. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.43, s. 128 (3, 4).