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Form of certificate. B. S. C..
0.55 r. 67.
Time for tak-' ing opinion of Judge.
Ib. r. 69.
Filing and effect of certificate. Ib. r. 70.
Discharge, etc., of cer- tificate. Ib. r. 71.
Register of proceedings. General Or- ders, 1862, r. 57.
File of proceedings. Ib. r. 58.
Application of Rules to provisional official liquidator. Ib. r. 59.
No. 1.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1865.
Certificate of Registrar.
57. The certificate of the Registrar shall be in such form as he may deem necessary, and, when prepared and settled, shall be transcribed in such form and within such time as the Registrar may require, and shall be signed by the Registrar, either then or, if necessary, at an adjournment to be made for that purpose.
58. Any party may, before the proceedings before the Registrar are con- cluded, take the opinion of the Judge on any matter arising in the course of the proceedings, without any fresh summons for that purpose.
59. Every certificate with the accounts, if any, to be filed therewith shall be filed by the Registrar, and shall thenceforth be binding on all the parties to the proceedings, unless discharged or varied on application by summons to be made before the expiration of eight clear days after the filing of the certificate.
60. The Judge may, if the special circumstances of the case require it, on an application by motion or summons for the purpose, direct a certificate to be discharged or varied at any time after the same has become binding on the parties.
Register and File of Proceedings.
61. Notes shall be kept of all proceedings in Chambers by the Judge's clerk with proper dates, so that all the proceedings in each matter may appear consecutively and in chronological order, with a short statement of the ques- tions or points decided or ruled at every hearing, and no document or proceed- ings is or are to be filed with the Registrar, unless the Judge otherwise directs.
62(1.) All orders, exhibits, admissions, memorandums, and office copies of affidavits, examinations, depositions, and certificates, and all other docu- ments relating to the winding-up of any company, shall be filed by the official liquidator, as far as may be, in one continuous file, and such file shall be kept by him or otherwise, as the Judge may from time to time direct.
(2.) Every contributory of the company, and every creditor thereof whose debt or claim has been allowed, shall be entitled, at all reasonable times, to inspect the file free of charge, and, at his own expense, to take copies or extracts from any of the documents comprised therein, or to be furnished with such copies or extracts at a rate not exceeding five cents per folio of seventy- two words.
(3.) The file shall be produced in Court or before the Judge, and otherwise as occasion may require.
Provisional Official Liquidator.
63. All the above rules relating to an official liquidator shall, so far as the same are applicable and subject to the directions of the Judge in each case, apply to a provisional official liquidator.
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