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Orders to attend and give evidence or to produce
documents.
Withdrawal or settle- ment of lieute referred to tribunal.
Deposit of documenta
for use of
tribunal.
Extension of time.
(Vol. VII, P. 44).
Application
for direc- tions.
shall deem to be necessary and if the party to whom such notice is given refuses to admit such facts, the party giving such notice shall be entitled to the costs of proving such facts in evidence before the tribunal, unless the tribunal otherwise orders.
21. An order directing any person to attend and give evidence or to produce documents shall be in the prescribed form with such variation as circumstances may require.
Any party desiring such an order shall issue the same 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 per- sonally 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.
22. When after any dispute has been referred to the tribunal by the claimant or the Director of Public Works, such dispute is settled or the notice of application to the tribunal is withdrawn, the claimant or the Director of Public Works, as the case may be, shall give immediate notice thereof to the clerk to the tribunal.
23. Not less than seven days before the date fixed for the hearing the claimant shall deposit with the clerk to the tribunal Lhree copies of every document required by these rules to be filed with the clerk together with three copies of any affidavit or other documents which he intends to adduce in evidence whether in accordance with the provisions of rule 17 hereof or otherwise (including any agreed correspondence) and the Director of Public Works shall deposit three copies of any affidavit or other documents which he intends to adduce in evidence in accordance with the provisions of rule 17 hereof.
24. The times within which any act is to be done as prescribed by these rules may be extended by consent of the parties or by die Registrar upon application to him for that purpose. Time for the purposes of these rules shall be calculated in the same manner as provided for in the Code of Civil Procedure, Order XXXI, rules 13, 14 and 15.
25. 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.
26. All applications to the Registrar shall be made to him by Procedure
for hearing summons issued from the Registry in the prescribed form return- BummonsW. able on four days notice and the costs of any application shall be determined by the Registrar as he may think fit, but the Registrar shall at the request of either party made either at the bearing of the application or within such time (not being less than four days) as the Registrar may fix at the hearing of the application, adjourn to the tribunal the hearing of any application for further hearing and determination, and the tribunal shall at the hearing of such application make such order and shall determine the costs of such application as the tribunal shall think fit.
27. When upon application to the Registrar of any claimant Concurrent
hearings. or of the Director of Public Works, it appears to the Registrar 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,
28. In the case of the death, bankruptcy or liquidation of the Procedure in case of claimant the Registrar may upon the application of any person, death, etc.
if it bc deemed necessary for the complete settlement of all the of claimant. questions involved, order that the personal representatives, 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 be served with notice to appear, on such terms as he may think just for the proper determination of the dispute before the tribunal.
28. Where by these rules, any notice is required or authorized Service to be served or given or any document is required or authorized by post, to be filed or any communication is required or authorized to be made or any document transmitted to or by the Registrar or the clerk to the tribunal or to or by any party, the same may be done by registered post.