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RULES OF SUPREME COURT IN CHINA

314. The forms set forth in the Second Schedule to these Rules, or Forms. forms to the like effect, shall be used with such variations as circum- stances may require.

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Where no pro-

315, Where in regard to any matter of practice or procedure no vision made, provision is made in the Principal Order or these Rules, the practice and English pre- procedure of the High Court and other Courts in England in regard to observed. similar matters shall be observed, as far as circumstances admit.

cedure to be

316. The annual reports mentioned in Article 167 of the Principal Annual rep rts Order shall be presented to the Supreme Court in the month of February Court. of each year, and shall be in the form given in the Second Schedule to Forms 116 these Rules.

And 117.

expenses of

317. The expenses of a complainant and of witnesses and of juries Scale of and of assessors that may be ordered by a Court under Article 52 of the witnesses, &c. Principal Order shall be according to the scale specified in the First Schedule to these Rules.

under Article

318. The report mentioned in Article 47 (2) of the Principal Order Report of cases shall in every case be sent to the Supreme Court within one month after 47 (2). the passing of the sentence, with a full copy of the Minutes of the trial and of the notes of evidence.

319. The following Rules and Tables of Fees are hereby repealed Repeal. except as to pending proceedings, that is to say:-

Rules of the Supreme Court of the 4th May, 1865.

Rules of the Supreme Court in Criminal Cases of the 7th

November, 1878.

Table of Fees of the 13th March, 1899.

Rules of the Supreme Court of the 25th April, 1905.

320. These Rules may be cited as "The China and Corea Rules of Short title. Court, 1905."

Approved:

LANSDOWNE,

His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State

for Foreign Affairs.

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