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Amendment of D. 75.

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(c) Photographic copy, for each

sheet of foolscap or smaller page

$2.00.": and (ii) by deleting the expressions "per day" and **$400.00" in Item 117 and substituting respectively there- for the following——

"(o) for the first hour or part thereof $100.00

(6) thereafter for each subsequent

hour or portion thereof

$ 75.00"; aud

(b) in Part II. by deleting paragraph 2(3) and substituting

the following—

"(3) No costs shall be allowed in respect of counsel, or of more than one counsel, attending before a judge, or the Registrar, in chambers unless the judge or Registrar, as the case may be, bas certified the attendance as being proper in the circumstances of the case.".

7. Order 75 of the principal rules is amended-

(a) in rule 34(1), by deleting "must to" and substituting the

following-

"must be":

(b) by adding the following new rules after rule 40-

"References to Registrar.

41. (1) Any party (hereafter in this rule referred to as the "claimant") making a claim which is referred to the Registrar for decision must within 2 months after the order is made, or, in a limitation action, within such other period as the Court or the Registrar may direct, file his claim and, unless the reference is in such an action, serve a copy of the claim on every other party.

(2) At any time after the claimant's claim has been fled or, where the reference is in a limitation action, after the expiration of the time limited by the Court for the filing of claims but, in any case, not less than 28 days before the day appointed for the bearing of the reference, any party to the cause or matter may apply to the Registrar by summons for directions as to the proceedings on the reference, and the Registrar shall give such directions, if any, as he thinks fit including, without prejudice to the genera- lity of the foregoing words, a direction requiring

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any party to serve on any claimant, within such period as the Registrar may specify, a defence to that claimant's claim.

(3) The reference shall be heard on a day appointed by the Registrar and, unless the reference is in a limitation action or the parties to the reference consent to the appointment of a particular day, the appointment must be made by order on an applica- tion by summons made by any party to the cause or malier.

(4) An appointment for the hearing of a refer- ence shall not be made until after the claimant has filed his claim or, where the reference is in a limita- tion action, until after the expiration of the time limited by the Court or Registrar for the fling of claims.

(5) Not later than 7 days after an appointment for the hearing of a reference has been made the claimant or, where the reference is in a limitation action, the plaintiff must enter the reference for bearing by lodging in the Registry a praccipe request- ing the entry of the reference in the list for hearing on the day appointed.

(6) Not less than 14 days before the day appointed for the hearing of the reference the claim- ant must file-

(a) a list, signed by him and every other party, of the items (if any) of his claim which are not disputed, stating the amount (if any) which he and the other parties agree should be followed in respect of each such item. and

(b) such affidavits or other documentary evi- dence as is required to support the items of his claim which are disputed; and, unless the reference is in a limitation action, he must at the same time serve on every other party a copy of every document filed under this paragraph.

(7) If the claimant fails to comply with para- graph (1) or (6)(5), the Court may, on the application of any other party to the cause or matter, dismiss the claim.