Pursuant to section 38(6)(d) of the Supreme Court Ordinance I hereby certify that the foregoing rules have been made by the requisite quorum of the Rules Committee under and by virtue of section 38(6) of that Ordinance.
Dated this 30th day of September 1967.
Explanatory Note.
Chief Justice.
(This Note is not part of the rules, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
These rules antend the Rules of the Supreme Court which come late operation on the 1st September 1967, Rule 3 alters the method in Order 41, rute 7(1) of authenticating an erasure in an affidavit for use in the Supreme Court. Rule 4 amends Order 498, in order that doubt may be reznoved as to the power to commit to prison for failure to pay a civil debu. Ruk 5 introduces into Hong Kong in rule form the Practice Ruka known in England as the Admiralty Short Cause Rules to be inserted in Order 75 as rule 31, which will enable any party to an Admiralty action to apply to the registrar, within 7 days after the entry of an appearance, for the trial of an action as an Admiralty Short Cause: rule 2 maken a consequential amendment in Order 25. Rule 6 maker amendments to the Forms consequential upon the amendment to Order 498.
(Secretariat GR. 39/2961/460)
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