Section 26 of the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act, 1993 deals with:

Section 26 provides that the defendant cannot dispute before the Recovery Officer "the correctness of the amount specified in the certificate", and allows the Presiding Officer to withdraw the certificate or correct clerical or arithmetical mistakes in it. Modes of recovery are in section 25, stay of proceedings in section 27 and appeals against the Recovery Officer in section 30.