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CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE-HONGKONG.

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without the

fle Award.

14.-When any matter has been referred to arbitration without the Arbitration intervention of the Court and award has been made, any person interested Intervention in the award may, within six months from the date of the award, make of the Court, application to the Court that the award be filed in Court. The Court Application to 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 Proceedings 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 Effect thereof, force and effect for all purposes as a judgment.

CHAPTER XX.-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. Adjournment.

thereon,

Powers of

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

Amendment.

Powers of

XCI.-Nothing in this Code shall affect the power of the Court to Geral

1; order or allow any am adment of any writ, petition, answer, notice, or other Court. document whatever, at any time on such terms as justice requires.

Power of Court as to Time.

Abridgment.

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

after Expira.

2.-Ware th: Court is by this Cod, or otherwise, authorised to My be grantei appoint the time for the doing of any act, or the taking of any proceedings, tion of Time or to enlarge the time appoints I or allowed for that purpose by this Code, previously or otherwise, the Court iny 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 alrealy allowed: Provided that no such further enlargement 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.

made.

XCIII. Ware by this Code, or any special order, or the course of How to be 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 tim, according to such computation.

2.-Where the limited tim: so appointed or allowed is less than six Sundays and

Holidays. days, the following days shall not be reckoned in the compatation of such time; namely:-Sua lay, Good Friday, Monday and faslay 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 act or the taking of any proceeding expires on one of the days last-mentioned, the act or proceeding Holiday. shall be considered as done or taken in due time if done or taken on the next day afterwar ls that is not one of the last-mentioned days.

Time expiring on a Sunday or

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