1988 Ed.] The Rules of the Supreme Court-Order 32
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(3) The application must be supported by an affidavit setting out the grounds on which such leave is sought and any facts necessary to substantiate those grounds.
Application for a direction under the Limitation Ordinance (O. 32, r. 9A)
9A. The jurisdiction to direct, under section 30 of the Limitation Ordinance, that section 27 or 28 of that Ordinance should not apply to an action or to any specified cause of action to which the action relates shall be exercisable by the Court.
Application to make order of Privy Council order of High Court (O.32, r. 10)
(HK)10. An application to make an order of the Privy Council an order of the High Court may be made ex parte by affidavit to a master.
[Subsidiary]
(Cap. 347.)
II. POWERS OF THE REGISTRAR, JUDGES AND THE COURT
Jurisdiction of the Registrar and masters (O. 32, r. 11)
11. (1) The Registrar and any master shall have power to transact all such business and exercise all such authority and jurisdiction as under any Ordinance or by these rules may be transacted and exercised by a judge in chambers except in respect of the following matters and proceedings, that is to say-
(a) matters relating to criminal proceedings;
(b) matters relating to the liberty of the subject other than orders for arrest and imprisonment to enforce, secure or pursue civil claims for the payment of money and orders prohibiting persons from leaving Hong Kong;
(d) subject to paragraph (2), proceedings for the grant of an injunction or other order under Part I of Order 29;
(f) any other matter or proceeding which by any of these rules is required to be heard only by a judge.
(2) The Registrar and any master shall have power to grant an injunction, or to make an order for the detention, custody or preservation of any property, in the terms agreed by the parties to the proceedings in which the injunction or order is sought.
Reference of matter to judge (O. 32, r. 12)
12. The Registrar and any master may refer to a judge any matter which he thinks should properly be decided by a judge, and the judge may either dispose of the matter or refer it back to the Registrar or to any master, with such directions as he thinks fit.