1984 Ed.]
District Court
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(2) The power to make such civil procedure rules shall extend to all matters of procedure or practice or matters relating to or concerning the effect or operation in law of any procedure or practice in any case within the cognizance of the Court as to which rules of the Supreme Court have been or might be made for cases within the cognizance of the Supreme Court and shall include power to make rules as to proceedings by or against the Crown.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of subsections (1) and (2), the power to make civil procedure rules shall extend to-
(a) providing for the division of the Colony into districts for the purposes of venue in civil proceedings and delineating and describing such districts;
(b) prescribing the district in which proceedings are to be commenced and the procedure to be adopted where proceedings are commenced in one district which should under the rules have been commenced in another district;
(c) prescribing the circumstances in which proceedings may be transferred from one district to another district and the procedure consequent on any such transfer;
(d) authorizing the Registrar to enter judgment by default;
(e) authorizing a judge to direct that the hearing in proceedings pending in any district shall take place in some other district;
(f) regulating or providing for any matters which were formerly regulated or provided for by the Supreme Court (Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance 1873.
(4) Any rule made in accordance with the provisions of this section may be so made as to modify, with respect to proceedings in the Court, any rule of law or practice as to the proof of any matter or as to the reception or admissibility of any matter in evidence.
(5) No rule made in accordance with the provisions of this section shall apply to any proceedings by or against the Crown except in so far as it expressly purports so to do.
(22 of 1962, s. 48, incorporated)
73. The Chief Justice may make rules for regulating the deposit, payment, delivery and transfer in, into and out of the Court of money, securities and movable property of suitors and the evidence of such deposit, payment, delivery or transfer, and the investment of and other dealings with money, securities, and movable property in court, and the execution of orders of the Court, and the powers and duties of the Registrar with reference to such money, securities and property, and, in particular, for doing all or any of the following things-
(a) regulating the placing on and withdrawal from deposit of money in court, and the payment or crediting of interest on money placed on deposit;
(14 of 1873.)
Suitors Fund Rules.