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Small Claims Tribunal (Suitors' Funds) Rules
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SMALL CLAIMS TRIBUNAL (SUITORS' FUNDS) RULES
L.N. 250/78.
UNIV
(Cap. 338, section 36)
☆ LIFE.
LAWI
[27th October, 1978.]
1. These rules may be cited as the Small Claims Tribunal (Suitors' Funds) Rules.
In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires-
2.
"funds" means money standing in or to be placed to the registrar's account;
"order" means an award or order of the tribunal or, in case of an appeal, of the Court, and includes any allocation by an adjudicator of the amount of an award;
"adjudicator" means an adjudicator appointed under the Ordinance;
"registrar" means the Registrar of the District Court;
"tribunal" means the Small Claims Tribunal.
3. (1) All funds to be paid into the tribunal shall be paid to the registrar.
(2) Except where the circumstances otherwise require, the registrar shall pay any funds paid into the tribunal to an account which may be interest earning or not (to be called the Small Claims Tribunal Suitors' Funds Account) at such bank as the Director of Accounting Services shall direct.
Citation.
Interpretation.
Payment into the tribunal.
4. (1) The registrar shall give a receipt to any person by whom funds are paid into the tribunal.
(2) A receipt given under this rule shall be as nearly as may be in Form 1 in the Schedule hereto and shall contain particulars sufficient to identify the payment to which it relates and a statement of such of the following circumstances as may be applicable-
(a) paid in on behalf of defendant (name of party) in satisfaction of claim of the above-named (name of party);
(b) paid in under order dated the day of 19 ;
(c) paid in to security for costs account on behalf of (name of party).
5. (1) The registrar shall keep appropriate accounts in respect of all funds paid into the tribunal and of all dealings relating thereto.
(2) No account kept by the registrar under this rule shall be credited with any sum by way of interest.
Schedule, Form 1.
Registrar to give receipt.
Registrar to keep accounts.