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RULES OF SUPREME COURT IN CHINA

PART IV.--GENERAL

313. The fees specified in the First Schedule to these Rules shall be Fees. paid.

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.

English pro-

421

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

observed.

to Supreme.

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

year, these Rules.

and 117.

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 expenses of Principal Order shall be according to the scale specified in the First Schedule to these Rules.

witnesses, &c.

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 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 The following Rules and Tables of Fees are hereby repealed Repeal.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.