PROBATES.
No. 2 of 1897.
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(5) All Ordinances, enactments, and rules of court relating to probate duty, or to fees and costs in the court, shall apply to applications for sealing under this section to the same extent and in the same manner as if the person who applies for such sealing were a person applying to the court for probate or administration.
provisions
72. The provisions of this Part relating to colonial probates shall apply to probates and administrations granted in a British possession to which the Ordinance is applied, either before or after the commencement of this Ordinance.
probates.
provisions to
British court
73. The provisions of this Part relating to colonial probates shall extend to authorise the sealing by the court of any probate or administration granted by a British court in a foreign country in like manner as they authorise the sealing of a probate or administration granted in a British possession to which the said provisions apply, and the said provisions shall apply accordingly, with the necessary modifications.
PART VII.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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and orders
74. The Chief Justice may make general rules and orders, subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, for the following purposes:
(a) for regulating the practice and procedure of the court, and the several forms of petitions, orders, and other proceedings to be used in the court;
(b) 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 and solicitors practising in the court, and the fees, charges, and costs to be taken and allowed with respect to all proceedings and all other matters in the court;
(d) for regulating the filing, custody, and inspection of records; and
(e) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.
* See Hodgson's Regulations of Hongkong, 1914, pp. 467, 468.
practice, duties of officers, fees, and records. 20 & 21 Vict. c. 77, s. 30.