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Powers of certain officers of the administer
No. 3. THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG (A.D. 1901)
703. Every person who, being an officer of or performing duties relating to the Court, is for the time being so authorized by the Court to by or in pursuance of any rules or orders regulating the procedure of the Court, and every person who is directed to take an examination in a cause or matter in the Court, shall have authority to administer any oath or take any affidavit required for any purpose connected with his duties oaths.
c. 10 s. 2.
Application
Attachment.
704. No writ of attachment shall be issued without the leave of the Court, to be applied for on notice to the party against whom the attachment is to be issued.
O.44 r. 2.
Effect of writ of attachment.
♫. r. 1.
Limited privilege of judicial officer from arrest. Indian Code, s. 642.
Saving of certain provisions of 8 & 9 Will 3 c. 11.
Ord. No. 6 of 1855 s. 31.
General mode of publishing notice.
H. K. Code, s. 97.
Use of forms. Schedule. Ib. s. 98.
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705. A writ of attachment shall have the same effect as a writ of attachment issued out of the Court in its equity jurisdiction formerly had.
706. No Judge, Magistrate, or other judicial officer shall be liable to arrest under civil process while going to, presiding in, or returning from his Court.
Saving.
707. Nothing in this Code shall affect the provisions of the Act of Parliament 8 & 9 William III, Chapter 11, entitled "An Act for the better preventing Frivolous and Vexatious Suits," as to the assignment or suggestion of breaches or as to judgment for a penalty as a security for damages in respect of further breaches.
Publication of Notices.
708. In any case in which the publication of any notice is required under the provisions of this Code, the same may be made by advertisement in The Gazette, unless otherwise provided by this Code or otherwise ordered by the Court.
Forms.
709.-(1.) The forms contained in the Schedule to this Code may be used in the cases to which they respectively have reference, with such variations and additions as the circumstances of the particular case may require, and shall, as regards the form thereof, be valid and sufficient.
(2.) The Chief Justice may from time to time alter the said forms or any of them or substitute other forms for them or any of them; and every such altered or substituted form shall be published in The Gazette.
(3.) So far as the said forms may be incomplete, all forms at present in use in the Court, with such variations and additions as the circumstances of the particular case may require, may be used for the purpose.