THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 13, 1933.
Service of Pleadings, etc.
28. Notices and copies of pleadings and other instru- ments which are required by these Rules to be delivered but of which personal service is not expressly required may be de- livered by leaving the same at the respective addresses furnish- ed by or on behalf of the parties.
Every notice shall be in writing and indorsed by the party or his solicitor.
29. When it is necessary to serve personally any order or decree of the Court an office copy thereof under seal of the Court must be produced to the party served and a copy so sealed annexed to the affidavit of service and marked as an exhibit by the person before whom the same is sworn.
Trial or Hearing.
30. Every Petition under the Ordinance shall be heard by a single Judge sitting without a Jury.
31. After the expiration of the time limited for filing an Answer, or, if a Reply be filed and subsequent pleadings be allowed to be delivered, after the expiration of the time limited for filing the last of such subsequent pleadings. the Petitioner may apply to the Court by summons for an order that the cause be set down for trial or hearing.
If the Petitioner fail to apply to the Court for such order within fourteen days of the time when he could first have made such application, any party defending the suit may proceed as the Petitioner might have done.
The party obtaining an order that a cause be set down for trial or hearing shall deliver a copy of such order to the Peti- tioner or to each party in the cause for whom an appearance has been entered, as the case may be.
32. No cause shall be placed in the list for trial or hear- ing until after the expiration of ten days from the date of setting down save with the consent of all parties to the suit or by order of a Judge.
33. The Registrar shall draw and sign the decree of the Court and the same shall be issued under the seal of the Court
34. After entering an Appearance a Respondent in a cause may without filing an Answer be heard in respect of any question as to costs and a Respondent who is husband or wife of the Petitioner may be heard also as to custody of or access to children.
Discovery.
35.--(1) In any cause or matter a party may deliver interrogatories for the examination of an opposite party or parties by leave of a Judge to he obtained upon summons.
(2) A copy of the interrogatories proposed to be delivered shall be delivered with the summons.
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