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Charging orders. 22 and 23 Geo. 5 c.37, s.69.

Revival of order for payment of

costs.

33 and 34

Vict.

c.28, s.19.

Regulations by Chief Justice.

Committee may act for Society.

Authentication

of Society's rules and documents. 22 and 23 Geo. 5 c.37, s.75.

Committee

may inspect

file in bankruptcy.

22 and 23

c.37, s.76.

Geo. 5

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(2) The certificate of the taxing officer by whom any bi has been taxed shall, unless it is set aside or altered by the court, be final as to the amount of the costs covered thereby, and the court may make such order in relation thereto as it thinks fit, including in a case where the retainer is not disputed an order that judgment be entered for the sum certified to be due with costs.

63. Any court in which a solicitor has been employed to prosecute or defend any suit, matter or proceeding may at any time declare the solicitor entitled to a charge on the property recovered or preserved through his instrumentality for his taxed costs in reference to that suit, matter or proceeding and may make such orders for the taxation of the said costs and for raising money to pay, or for paying, the said costs out of the said property, as it thinks fit, and all conveyances and acts done to defeat, or operating to defeat, that charge, shall, except in the case of a conveyance to a bona fide purchaser for value without notice, be void as against the solicitor: Provided that no order shall be made if the right to cover the costs is barred by any statute of limitations.

64. Whenever any judgment or order has been made for payment of costs in any action and such action afterwards becomes abated, it shall be lawful for any person interested under such judgment or order to revive such action, and thereupon to prosecute and enforce such judgment or order, and so from time to time as often as any such abatement may happen.

PART IV.

MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL.

65. The Chief Justice may, for the purposes of the execution of Part I, make general regulations with respect to the following matters or any of them, that is to say, the admission of a person. as a solicitor, and the duties of the registrar with respect to the keeping of the roll.

66. All acts and rules authorized or required to be done or made by the Society under or in pursuance of this Ordinance, or any order or rules made in pursuance of this Ordinance may be done or made on behalf of the Society by the Committee or a sub-committee thereof duly appointed for the purpose.

67. All rules, certificates, notices and other documents made or issued by the Society for any purpose whatsoever may be signed on behalf of the Society by the secretary, or by such other officer of the Society as may be from time to time prescribed by the Committee.

68. The Committee shall be entitled, without payment of any fee, to inspect the file of proceedings in bankruptcy relating to any solicitor against whom proceedings in bankruptcy have been taken and to be supplied with office copies of the proceedings on payment of the usual charge for such copies.