CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE HONGKONG
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the award the award shall be filed, and shall thereupon have the same Effect thereof. force and effect for all purposes as a judgment,
CHAPTER XX. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Adjournment
Powers of
XC.--Nothing in this Code shall affect the paver of the Court to Genersi defer or adjourn the hearing or determination of any suit, matter, pro- Court. ceeding, or application, for such time and on such tens as justice requires.
Amendment
XCI. Nothing in this Code shall affect the power of the Court to General order or allow any amendment of any writ, petition, answer, notice, or other Powers of document whatever, at any time on such terms as justice requires.
Power of Court as to Time
Court.
XCII.-Nothing in this Code shall affect the power of the Court to Enlargement or enlarge or abridge the time appointed or allowed for the doing of any act Abridgment. or the taking of any p oceeding on suh terms as justice requires.
allowed.
2. Where the Court is by this Code, or otherwise, authorised to May be granted appoint the time for the doing of any act, or the taking of any proceedings, atter Expira or to enlarge the time appointed or allowed for that purpose by this Code, previously or otherwise, the Cout may further enlarge any time so appointed or enlarged by it on such terms as seem just, whether the application for further enlargement be made before or after the expiration of the time already allowed: Provided that no su h further enlargement shall be made unless it appears to the Court to be required for the purposes of justice and not sought merely for delay.
Computation of Time
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XCIII.-Where by this Code, or any special order. or the course of How to be the Court, any limited tim from or after any date or event is appointed made. or allowed for the doing of any act or the taking o any proceeding, and such time is not limited by hours, the computation of sub limited time shall not include the day of such date or of the happening of such event, but shall commence at the beginning of the next following day, and the act or proveeding must be done or taken at latest on the last day of such hmited time, according to such computation.
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2. Where he limited time so appointed or allowed is less than six Sundays and days, the tollow ng days shall not be reckoned in the omputation of such Holidays. time; name y:--Sunday, Good Fr day, Monday and Tuesday in Ester werk, Christmas Day, and the day next before and the next after Christmas Day, and any publi holday or day set apart as a fast or thanksgiving day.
3.- Where the time or the doing of any act or the taking of any Time Expiring proceeding expires on one of the days last ment oned, the act or proceeding on a Sunday or shal. be considered as done or taken in due time if dovejo taken on the next day afterwards that is not one of the last-mentioned days,
Holiday.
Costs by Plain-
4. The day on which an order that a plaintiff 'o give security for Time in Case co-ts is served, and the time thenceforward un'il and including the day on ofecurity for which such security is given, shal be reckoned in the computation of the tif. time allowed to a de.endant for putting in answer.
Power of Court as to Costs
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XCIV. The costs of the hole suit and each particular proceeding Discretion of therein, and of evry pr ceeding before the Court, shall be in the dis retion Court. of the Court; and the Court shall have full pov er to award and apportion costs in any manner it m»y deem proper.
2. Under the denom nation of costs are included the whole of the What shall be expen es necessarily incurred by either party on account of the suit, and included in in enforcing the decree made therein, such as te expense of summoning the parties and witnesses, and of other process, or of procuring copies of
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