THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND MAY, 1897.
(3.) The Court may also, if it thinks fit, on the applica- tion of any creditor, require, before scaling, that adequate security be given for the payment of debts due from the estate to creditors residing in the Colony,
(4.) For the purposes of this section, a duplicate of any probate or administration scaled with the seal of the Court of Probate granting the same, or a copy thereof certified as correct by or under the authority of such Court, shall have the saine effect as the original.
(5.) All Ordinances, enactments, and rules of Court for the time being in fores in the Colony in relation to probate duty, or in relation to fees and costs in the Court, shall apply to applications for scaling under this section to the same extent and in the same manner as if the person who applies for such scaling were a person applying to the Court for probate or administration,
72. The provisions of this Part relating to colonial pro- Application bates shall apply to probates and administration granted of provisions in a British Possession to which this Ordinance is applied, relating to either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, probates.
colonial
colonial
73. The provisions of this Part relating to colonial pro- Extension of ̧ bates shall extend to authorize the sealing by the Court of provisions any probate or administration grunted by a British Court in Telating to a foreign country in like manner as they authorize the scaling probates to of a probate or administration granted in a British Possession probates, etc.. to which the said provisions apply, and the said provisions granted by shall apply accordingly, with the necessary modifications.
British Court
in foreign country.
PART VII.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS,
74.-(1) The Chief Justice may from time to time Making of make general rules and orders for the following purposes, general rules and may from time to time vary or rescind the same, that is and orders relating to to say,
practice. (a.) For regulating the practice and procedure of the duties of
Court, and the several forms of petitions, orders, and officers, fees, other proceedings to be used in the Court; (6.) For regulating the duties of the various officers
of the Court;
(c.) For regulating the fees to be taken by the officers of the Court and to be allowed to counsel. proctors, and solicitors practising in the Court, and the fees, charges, and costs to be taken and allowed with respect to all proecedings and all other matters in the Court;
(d.) For regulating the filing, enstody, and inspection
of records: and
(e.) Generally for the better carrying out of the pro-
visions of this Ordimuce.
(2.) No such rule or order shall be of any foree or effect until it has been approved by the Legislative Commcil and published in The Gazette,
and records.
75. Until such rides and orders have been made as afore-
Application said, the Court may direct, either generally or in any parti- of rules and cular case, that the rules and orders now in force of which orders of
Probate
may hereafter be in force in relation to matters of probate Division of and administration in the Probate Division of the High High Court in Court of Justice in England or any part thereof, and the England until forms of proceedings in use therein, or any of them, subject rules and to their applicability and with such modifications as "the orders made. circumstances may require, shall be followed and adopted in the Court, and any such direction shall take effect accord-
ingly.
76. An official copy of the whole or any part of a will, Copy of will,
or an official certificate of the grant of any administration, eték
may be obtained from the Registry of the Court on the payment of such fees as may be fixed for the same by the rules and orders made under this Ordinance,
Temporary Provisions.
7. All administrations heretofore granted to any Official Continuance Administrator shall be deemed to have been made to the to successors Official Administrator for the time being and to his suc- in office of cessors in office: Provided that no act heretofore done by grants of
administra- any person under any grant of administration made to him tion made to as Official Administrator shall be deemed to be affected or Official Admi rendered invalid on account of the passing of this Ordinance, Bistrator.
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