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RULES OF SUPREME COURT IN CHINA

Fees.

Forms.

Where uo pro- vision made, English pro- oedure to be observed.

Annual reports to Supreme Court.

Formis 116

and 117.

Scale of expenses of witnesses, &c.

Report of cases under Article 47 (9).

Repeal.

Short title.

PART IV.-GENERAL

313. The fees specified in the First Schedule to these Rules shall be paid.

314. The forms set forth in the Second Schedule to these Rules, or forms to the like effect, shall be used with such variations as circum- stances may require.

315, Where in regard to any matter of practice or procedure no provision is made in the Principal Order or these Rules, the practice and procedure of the High Court and other Courts in England in regard to similar matters shall be observed, as far as circumstances admit.

316. The annual reports mentioned in Article 167 of the Principal Order shall be presented to the Supreme Court in the month of February of each year, and shall be in the form given in the Second Schedule to these Rules.

317. The expenses of a complainant and of witnesses and of juries and of assessors that may be ordered by a Court under Article 52 of the Principal Order shall be according to the scale specified in the First Schedule to these Rules.

318. The report mentioned in Article 47 (2) of the Principal Order shall in every case be sent to the Supreme Court within one month after the passing of the sentence, with a full copy of the Minutes of the trial and of the notes of evidence.

319. The following Rules and Tables of Fees are hereby repealed except as to pending proceedings, that is to say:-

Rules of the Supreme Court of the 4th May, 1865.

Rules of the Supreme Court in Criminal Cases of the 7th

November, 1878.

Table of Fees of the 13th March, 1899.

Rules of the Supreme Court of the 25th April, 1905.

320. These Rules may be cited as "The China and Corea Rules of Court, 1905."

Approved:

LANSDOWNE,

His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State

for Foreign Affairs.

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