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4.

Section 2 of the Ordinance contemplates that

unless required by any enactment to be dealt with in any

particular way, or unless directed by any order of Court to

be invested, all moneys which are paid into Court are to be

handed to the Registrar who is then to place them on deposit

with the Treasurer. But this procedure is subject to be

modified or displaced by rules made under section4.

5.

Such rules have been made and are in force; and

rule 2 thereof expressly revokes "all other rules or orders

or rules of practice regulating the mode of dealing with

funds in Court and containing any provisions relating to

funds in Court inconsistent with these rules". The position

therefore, is that so far as provision is Lde by these

rules with respect to the procedure set forth in section 2

of Ordinance No.5 of 1896, such procedure is superseded.

6. I think the rules require that payments should

be made to the Treasurer direct on the direction of the

Registrar; and that the practice now followed of payments

being made to the latter official is altogether irregular.

7. On the other hand I agree with the Committee

that it is the more convenient course, so far as the public

are concerned, that the Registrar should be authorised to receive payments; and I am prepared, subject to safeguards

and checks suggested by the Comittee, to make the necessary

modifications in the rules to effect that purpose. As I

have already pointed out to Your Axcellency in my previous

communication of the 17th January, 1927, these rules are of

a technical character and I should be glad if the Committee

would submit draft rules for my consideration.

8.

In their Interim Report, the Committee call

attention