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[Subsidiary] Notice of sureties. R43.
Form 20.
Justification by sureties. R44. Form 21.
Execution of
bond.
R45.
Notice of deposit. R46.
Application of section 125.
R48.
(Cap. 6.)
Appointment and
remuneration
of shorthand writer.
S.I. 1952/2113,
69 and 70.
Forms 55 to 58. L.N. 39/76.
CAP. 6]
Bankruptcy Rules
[1977 Ed.
18. In all cases where a person proposes to give a bond by way of security, he shall serve, by post or otherwise, on the opposite party and on the Registrar, notice of the proposed sureties, and the Registrar may give notice to both parties of the time and place at which he proposes that the bond shall be executed and may state in the notice that, should the proposed obligee have any valid objection to make to the sureties or either of them, it must be made at that time.
19. The sureties shall make an affidavit of their sufficiency unless the opposite party dispenses with such affidavit, and such sureties shall attend the court to be cross-examined, if required.
20. The bond shall be executed and attested in the presence of the Registrar or the Official Receiver.
21. Where a person makes a deposit of money in lieu of giving a bond, the Registrar shall forthwith give notice to the person to whom the security is to be given of such deposit having been made.
Exemption from stamp duty
22. For the purposes of section 125 of the Ordinance, "bankruptcy" shall include any proceeding under the Ordinance whether before or after adjudication, and whether an adjudication is made or not, and "bankrupt" shall include any debtor proceeded against under the Ordinance.
Shorthand notes
23. (1) The court may at any time in any proceedings, if it considers that it would be desirable so to do, appoint a person (in these rules called a "shorthand writer") to take down, in shorthand or otherwise, the evidence of the debtor or of any witness examined at any public or private sitting, examination or meeting under the Ordinance.
(2) A shorthand writer (if any) attached to the Official Receiver's office shall be deemed to be duly appointed under paragraph (1), and it shall not be necessary to make any application to make such an appointment, and a general declaration by such shorthand writer adapted from Form 56 shall be deemed to apply to all proceedings in which notes are taken by him of any such evidence.
(3) Any document purporting-
(a) to be a transcript of the notes taken by a shorthand writer appointed under paragraph (1) or by a shorthand writer attached to the Official Receiver's Office; and
(b) to be signed by such shorthand writer,
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