Supreme Court

[1989 Ed.

(e) determining the cases in which interest on money placed on deposit and the dividends on any securities standing in the name of the Registrar is or are to be placed on deposit; and

(f) disposing of money, other than the balance of an intestate estate, remaining unclaimed in court or money remaining unclaimed in the Bankruptcy Estates Account established under section 128 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance (Cap. 6).

(3) For the purposes of this section "suitors" includes any party to arbitration proceedings who makes payment of money into the Supreme Court in accordance with rules of court. (Added 43 of 1982 s. 3)

PART VIII

GENERAL

58. (Had its effect)

59. Amendment of references in laws to Full Court and Supreme Court

In any law, unless the context otherwise requires-

(a) for any reference to the Full Court, there shall be substituted a reference to the Court of Appeal;

(b) for any reference to the Supreme Court, there shall be substituted a reference to the High Court; and

(c) any reference to a judge or officer of the Full Court or the Supreme Court shall be construed as a reference to a judge or officer of the Court of Appeal and the High Court, respectively.

60. Transitional

(1) Any civil or criminal proceeding pending in the Full Court or the Supreme Court at the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue in and be determined by the Court of Appeal and the High Court, respectively, save that any application for habeas corpus or for an order of mandamus, certiorari or prohibition so pending in the Full Court shall continue in and be determined by the High Court.

(2) Any civil or criminal proceeding being tried or heard before the Supreme Court or the Full Court at the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue before the High Court and the Court of Appeal, respectively, and in the case of a proceeding before the Full Court any judge constituting that Full Court shall be deemed to be a Justice of Appeal for the purposes of that proceeding.

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