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SUPREME COURT ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 4).

THE RULES OF THE SUPREME COURT (AMENDMENT) (NO. 4) RULES 1970.

We, the Rules Committee of the Supreme Court, being the authority having for the time being power under section 38 of the Supreme Court Ordinance to make, amend or revoke rules regulat- ing the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court do hereby in exercise of such power make the following rules-

1. These rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) (No. 4) Rules 1970, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of December 1970.

2. Order 18 of the principal rules is amended by--

(a) inserting in rule 7(1) after the word “rules” the follow-

ing-

"7A."; and

(6) inserting after rule 7 the following new rule-

"Conviction, etc. to be adduced in evidence; matter

to be pleaded.

7A. (1) If in any action which is to be tried with pleadings any party intends, in reliance on section 38K of the Evidence Ordinance (convictions as evidence in civil proceedings) to adduce evidence that a person was convicted of an offence by or before a court in the Colony he must include in his pleading a statement of his intention with particulars of-

(a) the conviction and the date thereof, (b) the court which made the conviction, and (c) the issue in the proceedings to which the

conviction is relevant.

(2) If in any action which is to be tried with pleadings any party intends, in reliance on section 38L of the Evidence Ordinance (findings of adultery as evidence in civil proceedings) to adduce evidence that a person was found guilty of adultery in matri- monial proceedings, he must include in his pleading a statement of his intention with particulars of—

(a) the finding and the date thereof,

Cilation and commencement.

Amendment of Order IB.

(cap. 4, nub. Jen.)