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Arbitration without the Intervention of the Court.

Application to fil Award.

Proceedings thereon.

Effect thereof.

General Powers of Court.

General Powers of Court,

Enlargement or Abridgment.

May be grante:] after Expira- tion of Time previously allowed.

How to be made.

Sundays and Holidays.

Time expiring

on a Sunday or Holiday.

Time in Case

of Security for

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CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE-HONGKONG.

14. When any matter has been referred to arbitration without the intervention of the Court and award has been made, any person interested in the award may, within six months from the date of the award, make application to the Court that the award be filed in Court. The Court shall direct notice to be given to the parties to the arbitration other than the applicant, requiring such parties to show cause, within a time to be specified, why the award should not be filed. The application shall be numbered and registered as a suit between the applicant as plaintiff and the other parties as defendants. If no sufficient cause be shown against the award the award shall be filed, and shall thereupon have the same force and effect for all purposes as a judgment.

CHAPTER XX.—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

Adjournment.

XC.-Nothing in this Code shall affect the power of the Court to defer or adjourn the hearing or determination of any suit, matter, pro- ceeding, or application, for such time and on such terms as justice requires.

Amendment.

XCI.—Nothing in this Code shall affect the power of the Court to order or allow any amendment of any writ, petition, answer, notice, or other document whatever, at any time on such terms as justice requires.

Power of Court as to Time.

XCII.-Nothing in this Code shall affect the power of the Court to enlarge or abridge the time appointed or allowed for the doing of any act, or the taking of any proceeding on such terins as justice requires.

2. Where the Court is by this Code, or otherwise, authorised to appoint the time for the doing of any act, or the taking of any proceedings, or to enlarge the time appointed or allowed for that purpose by this Code, or otherwise, the Court may further enlarge any time so appointed or enlarged by it on such terms as seem just, whether the application for further enlargement be made before or after the expiration of the time already allowed: Provided that no such further eul argement shall be made unless it appears to the Court to be required for the purposes of justice and not sought merely for delay.

Computation of Time.

XCIII. Where by this Code, or any special order, or the course of the Court, any limited time from or after any date or event is appointed or allowed for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding, and such time is not limited by hours, the computation of such limited time shall not include the day of such date or of the happening of such event, but shall commence at the beginning of the next following day, and the act or proceeding must be done or taken at latest on the last day of such limited time, according to such computation.

2.-Where the limited time so appointed or allowed is less than six days, the following days shall not be reckoned in the computation of such time; namely:-Sunday, Good Friday, Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week, Christmas Day, and the day next before and day next after Christmas Day, and

any public holiday or day set apart as a fast or thanksgiving day. 3.-Where the time for the doing of any at or the taking of any procceding expires on one of the days last-mentionel, the act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if done or taken on the next day afterwar is that is not one of the last mentioned days.

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4. The day on which an order that a plaintiff do give security for Costs by Plain. Costs is served, and the time thenceforward until and including the day on which such security is given, shall be reckoned in the computation of the time allowed to a defendant for putting in answer.

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