Article 170 of Code of Civil Procedure

The debtor may lodge a grievance against the order within ten days from the date it is served on him. The grievance shall be brought before the Summary Court or the Court of First Instance, as the case may be, and must state its grounds; otherwise, it shall be void. In hearing the grievance, the rules and procedures followed before the court of first instance shall be observed. Acceptance of the grievance as to form shall entail examining the formal and substantive conditions for obtaining 1( The first, second and third paragraphs were replaced pursuant to Decree-Law No. 71 of 2025. 2( Replaced pursuant to Decree-Law No. 71 of 2025. 3( Replaced pursuant to Decree-Law No. 71 of 2025. the order, and determining the merits of the dispute, unless there is a defect affecting the petition and the order relating to a violation of the rules of jurisdiction. At the request of the person lodging the grievance, the determination may be confined to deeming the payment order as if it had not existed, provided that another hearing is fixed to hear the merits. The payment order may not be appealed. The judgment issued on the grievance shall be appealed, whenever it is open to challenge, in accordance with the rules or procedures prescribed for appealing judgments.