17. For Order 13, rule 2(2), there shall be substituted the following—
“(2) In the exercise of the power conferred by paragraph (1) the court may, in particular,
(a)order any party to deliver any pleading or give any particulars which the court thinks necessary for defining the issues in the proceedings; and
(b)at the same or any subsequent time direct that the action or matter be dismissed or, as the case may be, the defendant be debarred from defending altogether or that anything in any pleading of which particulars have been ordered be struck out unless the order is obeyed within such time as the court may allow; and
(c)order one or more questions or issues to be tried before the others.”.