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6. Supreme Court
Ordinance, 1873. (No. 3 of 1873+) -Contd.
7. Supreme Court
(Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance, 1873- (No. 4 of 1873-) (1) Section 11A.
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rules committees notwithstanding that a previous rules committee is still function- ing or has not been dissolved.
(d) A copy of all such rules, certified under the hand of the Chief Justice, shall forthwith after the same are made be transmitted by the Chief Justice to the Governor. Such rules shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Gazette or on such other date as may be mentioned therein, and shall be laid before the Legislative Council at the first meeting after such publication."
(1) The Ordinance is amended by the addition
after section II of a section as follows-
+Crown remedies, etc.
11A. (1) Whenever any person makes default in payment of any sum of money due or payable by him to the Crown in respect of rent, or of any assessment for rates, or of any fees or forfeitures, or of any instalment thereof, then without prejudice to any other remedy of the Crown for the recovery of such sums, the Accountant General may recover the same by action in the Supreme Court under the provisions hereof, although the amount claimed exceeds one thousand dollars.
(2) The writ of summons in any such action shall be taken to have been duly served if it appears, to the satisfaction of the court, that the writ was left at the defendant's residence of place of business, or, in case the same is unknown, that it was left on the premises in respect of which the claim is made.
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7. Supreme Court
(Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance, 1873. (No. 4 of 1873.) -Conld.
(2) Section 21.
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(3) A certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Accountant General, and setting forth that the sum claimed is due or payable to the Crown and that the person sued is liable to the payment thereof, and specifying the nature and particulars of the claim shall be printa facie evidence of the facts certified therein and of the signature of the Accountant General thereto,
(4) The Accountant General shall sue as Accountant General under this section, but may be represented in court by any person he may appoint for such purpose.
(s) In any case under this section, the court may award interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum on the sum adjudged to be recovered from the day when the same became duc or payable.
(6) The Chief Justice may make rules under this section prescribing forms of particulars of claim and of certificates, for the appointment and powers of bailiffs and otherwise for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section. Until such rules shall be made, the provisions of section g of the Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875, and the forms in the Schedule to that Ordinance shall remain in force."
(2) Section 21 is repealed and replaced by the
following-
"21. The court may, on the applica- tion of either party, order that a panel of six common or special jurors be formed,