Bankruptcy.
Exemption from stamp duty.
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22. For the purposes of section 125 of the Ordinance, Application "bankruptcy" shall include any proceeding under the 125. Ordinance whether before or after adjudication, and whether R48. an adjudication is made or not, and "bankrupt" shall (Cap. 6). include any debtor proceeded against under the Ordinance.
Shorthand notes.
notes, etc.
R67.
58.
23. If the court is in any case, and at any stage in Shorthand the proceedings, of opinion that it would be desirable that a person (other than the person before whom the examination is taken) should be appointed to take down, in shorthand or otherwise, the evidence of the debtor, or of any witness examined at any public or private sitting or private meeting under the Ordinance, it shall be competent for the court to make such appointment; and every person so appointed, if not already in the service of the Government, shall be paid a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars a day, and also a sum not exceeding twenty-five cents per folio of seventy-two words for any transcript of the evidence that may be required, and such sums shall be paid by the party at whose instance the appointment was made, or out of the estate, as may be directed by the court. The shorthand writer (if any) attached to the Official Receiver's office shall be deemed to be duly appointed under this rule, and it shall not be necessary to make any application to make such appointment, and a general declaration by such shorthand writer adapted from Form 56 shall be deemed to apply to all cases in which notes are taken by him as aforesaid. A transcript of any such notes, purporting to be such transcript and purporting to be signed by a shorthand writer duly appointed under this rule or by the shorthand writer attached to the Official Receiver's office, shall until the contrary is proved be sufficient evidence that the questions and answers set forth therein were so put and answered respectively.
Discovery and examination under section 29.
24. Any party to any proceeding in court may with Discovery the leave of the court administer interrogatories to or obtain R73. discovery of documents from any other party to such proceeding.
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