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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 19, 1909.
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84. Any document lodged in connection with an Appeal. Petition, or other Amendment matter pending before His Majesty in ouncil or the Judicial Committee, may be meuts. amended by leave of the Registrar of the Privy Council, but if the said Registrar is of opinion that an application for leave to amend should be dealt with by the (ommittee in open Court, he may, and if he receives a written request in that be- half from any of the parties, he shall, put such application in the paper for hear- ing before the Committee at such time as the Committee may appoint, and shall give all parties interested Notice of the time so appointed.
85. Affidavits relating to any Appeal, Petition, or other matter pending be- Affidavits fore His Majesty in Council or the Judicial Committee may be sworn before the may be Registrar of the Privy Council,
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Registrar of the Privy Council.
86. Where a party to an Appeal, Petition, or other matter pending before His change of Majesty in Council changes his Agent, such party, or the new Agent, shall forth- Agent. with give the Registrar of the Privy Council notice in writing of the change.
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$7. Subject to the provisious of any Statute or of any Statutory Rule or Order Scope of to the contrary, these Rules shall apply to all matters falling within the Appellate of Rules. Jurisdiction of His Majesty in Council.
88. These Rules may be cited as the Judicial Committee Rules, 1908, and Mode of they shall come into operation on the 1st day of January 1909.
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Schedule A,
Rules as to Printing.
1. All Records and other proceedings in Appeals or other matters pending before His Majesty in Council or the Judicial Committee which are required by the above Rules to be printed shall henceforth be printed in the form known as Demy Quarto (ie., 54 ems in length and 42 in width).
II. The size of the paper used shall be such that the sheet, when folded and trimmed, will be 11 inches in height and 84 inches in width.
III. The type to be used in the text shall be Pica type, but Long Primer shall be used in printing accounts, tabular matter, and notes.
IV. The number of lines in each page of Pica type shall be 47 or thereabouts, and every tenth line shall be numbered in the margin.
V. The price in England for the printing by His Majesty's Printer of 50 copies in the form prescribed by these Rules shall be 38s. per sheet (eight pages) of pica with marginal notes, not including correc- tions, tabular matter, and other extras.
Schedule B.
Countries and Places referred to in Rules 21, 29, and 34.
Australia (and the constituent States thereof).
Basutoland,
British East Africa.
British Honduras.
British North Borneo.
Brunei.
Ceylon.
China.
Eastern African Protectorates.
Falkland Islands.
Federated Malay States.
Fiji.
Hong Kong.
India.
Mauritius:
New Zealand.
Persia.
Seychelles.
Somaliland Protectorate.
Straits Settlements.
Zanzibar.