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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 24, 1937.
Schedule, contd.
SHORT TITLE.
AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.
60. The Code of Civil
Procedure, 1901. (No. 3 of 1901.), -contd.
662. When adjudicating upon the claims Adjudication of persons claiming to be creditors the on claims. court in its discretion may allow any of 0. 55, г. 52.
such claims, or any part thereof respec- tively, without proof by the claimants, and may direct all or any of the claims not so allowed to be investigated in such manner as it may think fit, and may require any further particulars, information, or evid- ence, relating to such claims, and may require any claimant to attend and prove his claim, or any part thereof, and may adjourn the adjudication upon such claims as are not then allowed.
evidence.
663. Where on the day appointed for Adjourn- adjudicating upon the claims of persons ment. claiming to be creditors any of such claims Further are adjourned or remain undisposed of, another day for adjudicating upon such 0.55, r. 53. claims shall be fixed, and where further evidence is to be adduced, the times for filing evidence in support of and in op- position to the claims may be fixed, and in that case the proceedings shall be ad- journed until the evidence is completed.
664. Notice of allowance shall be given Notice of by such party as the court may direct to claims
allowed or every creditor whose claim, or any part disallowed.
thereof, has been allowed. Notice shall be given by such party as aforesaid to 0. 55, r. 54. every person claiming to be a creditor whose claim or any part thereof shall not have been allowed to prove his claim or such part thereof as is not allowed, by a time to be named in such notice, not being less than seven days after such notice, and to attend at a time to be therein mentioned, being the time appointed for adjudicating on the claim; and in case the claimant shall not comply with such not:ce, his claim, or such part thereof as aforesaid, may be disallowed. No person claiming to be a creditor need Unless make any affidavit nor attend in support served of his claim (except to produce his with notice security) unless he is served with a notice need not requiring him to do so. Every person attend. claiming to be a creditor shall produce the security (if any) held by him before the court at such time as shall be specified in the advertisement for ad- judicating on the claims.
claimant
665. The court may allow a creditor Costs. who has established his debt in chambers 0. 55, r. 55.. under any judgment or order the costs of so establishing his debt, and the sum to be allowed for such costs shall be fixed by the court. unless it shall think fit to direct the taxation thereof, and the amount of such costs, or the sum allowed in respect thereof, shall be added to the debt so established. The court may order