Any Person interested may within seven days after notice of the award apply to the court by motion to prevent the award, or any specified part of it, being carried into effect.

If no such motion is made, the court shall proceed, on reasonable notice to all parties, to make such Order for carrying into effect the award or any part thereof, and as to costs and other things, as seems just.

The court shall have power at any time, and from time to time, to remit the matters referred, or any of them, to the reconsideration and redetermination of the arbitrators or umpire, on such terms as to costs and other things as seem just.

The court shall not refrain from carrying an award into effect merely on the ground of irregularity in the submission, or during the reference, where such irregularity has not been substantially prejudicial to the party applying against the award.

XI—AFFIDAVIT AND OTHER EVIDENCE. Affidavits.

Every Affidavit used in the court must be either in English, or the usual and familiar language of the Witness swearing it.

An Affidavit in any language other than English, must be accompanied by a sworn translation into English, procured by and at the expense of the Person using the Affidavit.

Every Affidavit, sworn before any British Judicial or consular officer in China or Japan, in the matter of any suit or other proceeding in Her Majesty's courts in China and Japan, must be headed in the court and in the suit or proceeding in which the Affidavit is to be used.

It must state the full name, trade or profession, address and nationality, of the Witness.

It may be in the first or in the third Person, and may be divided into convenient paragraphs numbered consecutively.

Every Affidavit used in the court must contain only a statement of facts and circumstances, to which the Witness swears, either of his own personal knowledge, or from information which he believes to be true.

It must not contain any extraneous matter, by way of objection, prayer, or legal Argument or conclusion; and every statement must be as brief and positive as may be consistent with propriety and with truth.

The matter of fact sworn to, whether in affirmation or denial, if within the knowledge of the witness, must be sworn to positively and certainly.

Where a Witness swears to his belief in any matter of fact, such belief arising from any source other than his own personal knowledge, he must set forth explicitly the facts and circumstances forming the ground of his belief.

Where the belief in the truth of the matter of fact sworn to arises from information received from another Person, the name of such Person must be stated, and such particulars must be given as to the informant, and as to the time, place, and circumstances of the information, as may afford means to other parties to verify or contradict the same.

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