Withdrawal or settle. ment of
dispute re- ferred to Tribunal.
Deposit of documents for use of Tribunal.
Extension of time.
Application fur directions.
Procedure
summonses.
from the Registry and such order shall be signed by the Registrar. The order shall contain the name of one person only and shall be served personally or by post a reasonable time before the date fixed for hearing. Every order issued pursuant to this rule shall be of no validity unless served upon the person named therein within twelve weeks from the date of the order.
26. When after any dispute has been referred to the Tribunal by the claimant or the Attorney General, such dispute is settled or the notice of application to the Tribunal is withdrawn, the claimant or the Attorney General (as the case may be) shall give immediate notice thereof to the Registrar.
27. Not less than 7 days before the date fixed for the hearing the claimant shall deposit with the Registry three copies of every document required by these rules to be filed with the Registrar together with three copies of any affidavits or other documents which he intends to adduce in evidence whether in accordance with the provisions of rules 19, 20 and 21 hereof or otherwise (including any agreed correspondence) and the Attorney General shall deposit three copies of any affidavits or other documents which they intend to adduce in evidence in accordance with the provisions of rules 19, 20 and 21 hereof.
28. The times within which any act is to be done as pre- scribed by these rules may be extended by consent of the parties or by the Registrar upon application to him for that purpuse. Time for the purposes of these rules shall be calculated in the some manner as provided for in the Code of Civil Procedure, Order 31, rules 13, 14 and rs.
29. At any stage of the proceedings before the Tribunal, application may be made to the Registrar for directions relating to any other matter incidental to the notification, presentation and hearing of disputes before the Tribunal not otherwise expressly dealt with in these rules and upon such application the Registrar may make such order as he thinks fit.
30. All applications to the Registrar shall be made to him for hearing by summans issued from the Registry in the form contained in the Schedule to these rules returnable on four days notice and the costs of any application shall be determined by the Registrat as he may think fit, but the Registrar shall at the request of
either party made either at the hearing of the application or within such time (not being less than 4 days) as the Registrar may fix at the hearing of the application adjourn the hearing of any application to the Tribunal for further hearing and determination and the Tribunal shail at the hearing of such application make such order and shall determine the costs of such application as the Tribunal shall think fit.
31. When upon the application to the Registrar of any Concurrent claimant or of the Attorney General, it appears to the Registrar hearings. that a common question of law or of fact is raised by several disputes referred to the Tribunal, and that it is expedient that such disputes shall be disposed of together, the Registrar may order, notwithstanding that the disputes may be with different claimants, that such disputes shall be heard and determined by the Tribunal concurrently.
in case
32. In the case of the death, bankruptcy or liquidation of Procedure the claimant the Registrar may upon the application of any of death, person, if it be deemed necessary for the complete settlement of ots, of all the questions involved, order that the personal representatives, claimant. trustee in bankruptcy, liquidator or other successor in interest (if any) of the claimant be made a party to the proceedings before the Tribunal and he served with notice to appear, on such terms as he may think just for the proper determination of the dispute before the Tribunal.
33. Where by these rules, any notice is required or Service by authorized to be served or given or any document is required or
post. authorized to be filed or any communication is required or authorized to be made or any document transmitted to or by the Registrar or to or by any party, the same may be done by registered post.
34. The contents of any statement filed in accordance with Statements rule 7, rule 11 or rule 13 hereof shall not be disclosed to the filed under rules 7, 11 Tribunal until after the decision of the Tribunal is made known, and 13 If the Tribunal shall award to any claimant by way of compensa- disclosed to
not to be tion an aggregate sum equal to or less than the aggregate sum Tribunal. offered to the claimant by the Government by way of compensa- tion either before or after the reference of the dispute to the Tribunal, the claimant shall bear the costs of the reference of the dispute to the Tribunal unless the Tribunal shall order otherwise.