Bankruptcy.
Where the Chief Justice amends any form or prescribes any new form, such amended or new form shall be published in the Gazette.
PART II.
GENERAL PROCEDURE.
Court and chambers.
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Matters to be heard in court.
The following matters and applications shall be heard and determined in open court--
(a) petitions: Provided that a debtor's petition may be heard in chambers if urgent, and if the judge so directs;
(b) applications for adjudication;
(c) applications to rescind a receiving order, or to annul an adjudication;
(d) the public examination of debtors;
(e) applications to approve a composition or scheme of arrangement;
(f) applications for orders of discharge;
(g) applications to set aside or avoid any settlement, conveyance, transfer, security or payment, or to declare for or against the title of the trustee to any property adversely claimed;
(h) applications for the committal of any person to prison for contempt;
(i) appeals against the rejection of a proof, or applications to expunge or reduce a proof, where the amount in dispute exceeds two thousand dollars;
(j) applications for the trial of issues of fact with a jury, and the trial of such issues;
(k) any other matter which the Chief Justice may direct.
Any other matter or application may be heard and determined in chambers unless the Chief Justice directs that it be heard and determined in open court.
Adjournment from court and chambers to vice versa.
6. Subject to the provisions of the Ordinance and these rules, any matter or application may, at any time, if the judge thinks fit, be adjourned from chambers to court or from court to chambers; and if all the contending parties require any matter or application to be adjourned from chambers to court it shall be so adjourned.
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