CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
No. 3 of 1901.
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556. The report or award of any special referee, arbitrator, or officer of the Court on any such reference shall, unless set aside by the Court, be equivalent to the verdict of a jury.
557. The remuneration to be paid to any special referee, arbitrator, or officer of the Court to whom any matter is referred under an order of the Court shall be determined by the Court.
[52 & 53 Vict. c. 49 s. 15 (2).]
Remuneration of referee, etc. [ib. s. 15 (3).]
558. The Court shall, as to any reference under an order of the Court, have all the powers which are by this Chapter conferred on the Court as to a reference by consent out of Court.
General Provisions.
Court as to reference. [ib. s. 16.]
559.-(1) The Court may order that a writ of subpoena ad testificandum or of subpoena duces tecum shall issue to compel the attendance before a special referee, or before any arbitrator, umpire, or officer of the Court, of a witness wherever he may be within the Colony.
(2) The Court may also order that a writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum shall issue to bring up a prisoner for examination before a special referee or before any arbitrator, umpire, or officer of the Court.
of witness before referee, etc. [iv, s. 18.]
560. Any special referee, arbitrator, or umpire or officer of the Court may, at any stage of the proceedings under a reference, and shall, if so directed by the Court, state in the form of a special case for the opinion of the Court any question of law arising in the course of the reference.
Statement of special case pending reference. [ib. s. 19.]
561. Any order made under this Chapter may be made on such terms as to costs, or otherwise, as the authority making the order thinks just.
Costs. [ib.s.20.]
562. Every person who wilfully and corruptly gives false evidence before any special referee, arbitrator, or umpire or officer of the Court shall be guilty of perjury, as if the evidence had been given in open Court, and may be dealt with, prosecuted, and punished accordingly.
Punishment for perjury. [ib. s. 22.]
563. This Chapter shall, except as in this Chapter expressly mentioned, apply to any arbitration to which His Majesty the King is a party; but nothing in this Chapter shall empower the Court to order any proceedings to which His Majesty is a party, or any question-
The Crown by Chapter XXIV. [ib. s. 28.]
to be bound