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thereupon be deemed to be so substituted or entered on the Record as aforesaid without express Order of His Majesty in Council.
136. Where the Record subsequently to its dispatch to England becomes defective by reason of the death, or change of status, of a party to the appeal, the Full Court shall, upon an application in that behalf made by any person interested, cause a certificate to be transmitted to the Registrar of the Privy Council showing who, in the opinion of the Court, is the proper person to be substituted, or entered, on the Record, in place of, or in addition to, the party who has died or undergone a change of status.
137. Where the Judicial Committee directs a party to bear the costs of an appeal incurred in Egypt, such costs shall be taxed by the proper officer of the Supreme Court in accordance with the rules for the time being regulating taxation in the Supreme Court.
138. The Supreme Court shall execute any Order which His Majesty in Council may think fit to make on an appeal from a judgment of the Full Court in like manner as any original judgment of the Supreme Court should or might have been executed.
139. This Order shall not affect the right of His Majesty in Council at any time, on the humble petition of a person aggrieved by a decision of the Full Court, to admit his appeal on such terms and in such manner as His Majesty in Council may think fit, and to deal with the decision appealed from in such manner as may be just.
Part V-Procedure in Criminal and Civil Matters.
140.—(1) In every case, civil or criminal, minutes of the proceedings shall be drawn up, and shall be signed by the Judge before whom the proceedings are taken, and shall, where the trial is held with assessors, be open for their inspection and for their signature if concurred in by them.
(2) These minutes, with the depositions of witnesses, and the notes of evidence taken at the hearing or trial by the Judge, shall be preserved in the public office of the Court.
141.-(1) The Judge of the Supreme Court may make Rules of Court-
(a) for regulating the pleading, practice and procedure in the Courts established under this Order with respect to all matters within the jurisdiction of the respective Courts;
(b) for regulating the means by which particular facts may
be proved in the said Courts;
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(c) for prescribing any forms to be used;
(d) for prescribing or regulating the duties of the officers
of the said Court;
(e) for prescribing scales of costs and regulating any
matters in connection therewith;
(f) for prescribing and enforcing the fees to be taken in respect of any proceedings under this Order, not exceeding, as regards any matters provided for by the Consular Salaries and Fees Act, 1891, (a) fees fixed and allowed from time to time by any Order in Council made under that Act;
(g) for prescribing the allowances to be made in criminal cases to complainants, witnesses, jurors, assessors, interpreters, medical practitioners, and other persons employed in the administration of justice, and the conditions upon which an order may be made by the Court for such allowances;
(h) for taking and transmitting depositions of witnesses for use at trials in the United Kingdom or in a British possession, Protectorate or Mandated Terri- tory;
(i) authorising the Court to order the service outside the limits of this Order of a Writ of Summons or other originating process upon any British subject.
(j) authorising the Court to serve writs and other processes of a civil or commercial character on behalf of other tribunals, whether situated in Egypt or not, and if situated outside Egypt whether situated inside His Majesty's dominions protectorates or mandated terri- tories or in any foreign State in amity with His Majesty ;
(k) for regulating the mode in which legal practitioners are to be admitted to practise as such, and for with- drawing or suspending the right to practise on grounds of misconduct, subject to a right of appeal to His Majesty in Council;
(1) for regulating the management and investment of pro-
perty under the control of the said Courts;
(m) for regulating any other matter which this or any other Order applicable to Egypt provides shall be regulated by Rules prescribed.
(2) Where, under any Act of Parliament which is applicable within the limits of this Order, Rules may or are required to be made in England by the Lord Chancellor or any judicial authority, the Judge of the Supreme Court shall have power to make such Rules for the purposes of that Act so far as applicable.
(3) Rules framed under this Article shall not have effect until approved by the Secretary of State, and, so far as they relate to fees and costs, sanctioned by the Treasury; but in case of urgency declared in any such Rules with the approval of the
(a) 54-5 V. c. 36.
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