CAP. 41
Supreme Court Suitors' Funds Rules
[1979 Ed.
20. When, in carrying into effect the directions of an order, evidence is required by the Registrar for any purposes other than those included in rule 19, he may receive and act upon an affidavit or upon a statutory declaration, and every such affidavit or statutory declaration shall be filed in court when the Registrar shall consider it necessary.
21. (1) The Registrar, upon a request signed by or on behalf of a person claiming to be interested in any funds in court standing to the credit of any account specified in such request, shall, unless there is good reason for refusing, issue a certificate of the amount and description of such funds, and such certificate shall have reference to the morning of the day of the date thereof and shall not include the transactions of that day.
(2) The Registrar shall notify on a certificate issued under paragraph (1)
(a) the dates of any charging order affecting or of any order restraining the transfer, sale, payment, delivery out or other dealing with the funds in court to the credit of the account specified in the certificate, in respect of which order he has received notice;
(b) whether such charging or restraining order affects principal or interest;
(c) the names of the persons to whom notice is to be given or in whose favour such charging or restraining order has been made.
(3) The Registrar may redate any certificate issued under paragraph (1) if no alteration in the amount or description of funds has been made since the issue of the certificate.
22. Upon a request signed by or on behalf of a person claiming to be interested in funds in court, the Registrar shall, unless there is good reason for refusing-
(a) issue a transcript of the account in his books specified in such request; and
(b) supply such other information or issue such certificates with respect to any transactions or dealings with funds in court as may from time to time be required in any particular case.
23. (1) When any sum of money remains unclaimed in the court for a period of 5 years, the Chief Justice may, on application by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, order such sum to be transferred to the general revenue of Hong Kong.
(2) Before making any such order under subsection (1) the Chief Justice may direct that such notice, if any, as he thinks necessary shall be given and to such parties as he may think fit.