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(3) The committee may make rules (to be known as the District Court Civil Procedure Rules) touching the procedure and practice of the District Court in the exercise of its civil jurisdiction, and such rules may prescribe or provide for-

(a) the procedure (including provisions for venue and the method of pleading) and the practice to be followed in the court in all causes and matters whatsoever in or with respect to which the court has for the time being civil jurisdiction (including the procedure and practice to be followed in the offices of the court), and any matters incidental to or relating to any such procedure or practice, including the manner in which, and the time within which, any applications which are to be made to the court shall be made;

(6) the procedure in connexion with the transfer of pro- ceedings from one judge to another or from and to the Supreme Court or to and from a magistrale;

(c) those functions of a District Judge which may be dis-

charged by the registrar;

(d) the fees and percentages to be taken in the court and the fees of counsel and the costs of solicitors and the costs of proceedings in the court, and the forms to be used therein;

(e) repealing any enactment which relates to matters with respect to which rules may lawfully be made under this section i

( the means by which particular facts may be proved, and the mode in which evidence thereof may be given, in any proceedings or on any application in connexion with or at any stage of any proceedings;

(g) in what cases the court may act upon the certificates of

accountants, actuaries or scientific persons;

(b) the joinder of parties, and in what cases persons absent, but having an interest in a cause or matter, shall be bound by any order made therein, and in what cases orders may be made for the representation of absent persons by one or more parties to a cause or matter;

() the discovery of a judgment debtor's property in aid of the execution of any judgment, and the modes of enforcing any judgment;

() the conduct of actions by or against firms, and of actions

by or against paupers;

(k) actions relating to immovable property;

() in what cases and in what manner there may be submis- sions and references to arbitration or to special referees, how parties shall be bound thereby, and to what extent and with what consequences; and for the appointment, powers and duties of arbitrators and special referees; and for proceedings before such arbitrators and special referees;

(m) arrest and attachment before judgment and interim

attachment and temporary injunctions;

(*) in what cases and in what manner receivers may be

appointed, and their functions;

(o) the procedure whereby the court may adjudicate or give an opinion on a special case either in a cause or matter or on the construction of an enactment or instrument or with regard to any title;

(P) the forms for use in proceedings in the court;

(g) the business and hours of the court and of the offices

connected therewith;

(r) the deposit, payment, delivery, and transfer in, into, and out of the court of money, securities, and movable property of suitors and the evidence of such deposit, payment, delivery, or transfer, and the investment of and other dealings with money, securities, and movable pro- perty in the court, and the execution of the orders of the court, and the powers and duties of the registrar with reference to such money, securities, and property, and, in particular, for doing all or any of the following things-

(i) regulating the placing on and withdrawal from deposit of money in court, and the payment or crediting of interest on money placed on deposit;