CAP. 179]
[r. 68 cont.]
Divorce.
(2) Such investigation shall be conducted in the presence of the parties or their solicitors, and the Registrar shall be at liberty to require the attendance of either party for the purpose of being examined or cross-examined and to take the oral evidence of witnesses, and to require the production of any document, and to call for affidavits.
(3) The Registrar may adjourn the proceedings from time to time and from place to place, if he thinks necessary.
(4) Counsel may attend at the hearing of any reference, but the costs so incurred shall not be allowed on taxation unless the Registrar certifies that the attendance of counsel was necessary.
(5) The Registrar may apply summarily to the court for directions or for the decision of any question of doubt or difficulty and the court may give such direction or make such order in the matter as may seem just and reasonable.
(6) When a reference has been completed, the Registrar shall draw up a report in writing of the result and may in such report make such recommendation as he may think fit.
(7) When the report is ready it shall be filed by the Registrar who shall give notice of such filing to the parties and the petitioner shall forthwith pay the prescribed fee therefor.
(8) Within fourteen days after such filing any party may file a notice of motion to vary the report specifying the items or matter objected to and at the hearing of the motion the court may remit the matter to the Registrar for further investigation or report or may make such order, including a final decree in the matter of the application, as may seem fit.
(9) If no notice of motion to vary the report is filed within fourteen days from the filing of the report, the court may of its own motion forthwith proceed to consider the report and may make a final decree in the matter of the application.
69. Pending the final determination of an application for alimony, whether alimony pending suit or permanent
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