AD. 1901.
CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE,
[No. 3.
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appointed or enlarged by it, on such terms as may seem just, whether the application for further enlargement is made before or after the expiration of the time already allowed: Provided that no such further enlargement shall be made unless it appears to the Court to be required for the purposes of justice, and not sought merely for delay.
700. The time for filing or amending any pleading, answer, or other document may be enlarged by consent in writing, without application to the Court.
of time by consent. O. 64 r. 8.
Rules for computation of time limited for doing act or taking proceeding.
701-(1.) Where, by this Code, or by any special order, or by the course of the Court, any limited time from or after any date or event is appointed or allowed for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding, and such time is not limited by hours, the computation of such limited time shall not include the day of such date or of the happening of such event, but shall commence at the beginning of the next following day, and the act or proceeding must be done or taken at latest on the last day of such limited time, according to such computation.
(2.) Where the limited time so appointed or allowed is less than six days, the following days shall not be reckoned in the computation of such time, namely, Sunday, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week, Christmas Day, and the day next before and the day next after Christmas Day, and any public holiday or day set apart as a fast or thanksgiving day.
(3.) Where the limited time so appointed or allowed expires on one of the days last mentioned, the act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if done or taken on the next day afterwards that is not one of the last-mentioned days.
(4.) The day on which an order that a plaintiff shall give security for costs is served, and the time thenceforward until and including the day on which such security is given, shall not be reckoned in the computation of the time allowed to the defendant for filing his statement of defence.
(5.) Nothing in the preceding provisions relating to time shall affect the provisions of the Supreme Court (Vacations) Ordinance, 1898.
Commissioners for Oaths.
H. K. Code, 9. 93. No. 5 of 1898:
702.-(1.) The Chief Justice may from time to time, by a commission signed by him, appoint fit and proper persons to be commissioners to administer oaths and take declarations, affirmations, and attestations of honour in the Court, and may revoke any such appointment.
Appointment, powers, etc., of Commissioners for Oaths. 16 & 17 Vict. c. 78 ss. 1-5 and 52 & 53 Vict. c. 10 s. 1.
(2.) Every person so appointed shall be styled a Commissioner for Oaths, and shall have all the powers and discharge all the duties which now belong to the office of a commissioner to administer oaths.
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