CO129-530-11 Suitors Funds Amendment Ordinance- 1931 15-5-1931 - 17-12-1931 — Page 14

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reduplication of work done in the Registry, but without the

keeping of such accounts the present system affords no

effective safeguard as the Treasurer has no means of determin-

ing whether the sum which he is directed to pay is in fact

payable to the person named in the "Direction".

The present system is cumbrous and involves labour in the

Treasury and delay and inconvenience for litigants without

affording any commensurate safeguard.

It is considered desirable that that payments into court

should be dealt with in the manner in which they now are,

but that payments out of court should be made by the

Registrar direct to the persons entitled thereto, the

Treasurer being duly informed by the Registrar of all

payments into and out of court. The Colonial Treasurer, the Auditor and the Registrar of the Supreme Court are desirous

of making this change in procedure, which is to be in accord

with that which prevails in the County Courts in England.

(Sd.) C. G. Alabaster,

April, 1931.

Attorney General.