1988 Ed.) The Rules of the Supreme Court-Order 48

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(2) Where the property sold consists of debts, not being negotiable instruments, or of shares in any public company or corporation, the Court shall, on the application of the purchaser, make an order prohibiting the judgment debtor from receiving the debts and his debtor from making payment thereof to any person except the purchaser, or prohibiting the person in whose name the shares are standing from making any transfer of the shares to any person except the purchaser, or receiving payment of any dividends thereon, and the manager, secretary or other proper officer of the company or corporation from permitting any such transfer or making any such payment to any person except the purchaser.

(3) Where the property sold consists of a negotiable instrument of which actual seizure has been made the same shall be delivered to the purchaser.

(4) (a) If the execution of a transfer by any person in whose name any share in a public company or corporation is standing, or the indorsement by any person of any negotiable instrument, or the execution by any person of any deed or other instrument relating to immovable property or any interest therein, is lawfully required to give effect to any sale in execution of a judgment, the Registrar, with the sanction of the Court, may--

(i) execute such transfer; or

(ii) endorse such negotiable instrument; or (iii) execute such deed or other instrument.

(b) The execution of such transfer, the endorsement of such negotiable instrument and the execution of such deed or other instrument by the Registrar shall have the same effect as the execution and the endorsement by the person whose execution or endorsement is so required as aforesaid.

(c) Until the execution of such transfer or the endorsement of such negotiable instrument the Court may, by order, appoint some person to receive any dividend or interest due in respect of any such share or negotiable instrument.

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ORDER 48

EXAMINATION OF JUDGMENT DEBTOR, ETC.

Order for examination of judgment debtor (O. 48, r. 1)

1. (1) Where a person has obtained a judgment or order for the payment by some other person (hereinafter referred to as "the judgment debtor") of money, the Court may, on an application made ex parte by the person entitled to enforce the judgment or order, order the judgment debtor or, if the judgment debtor is a

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