Swearing of affidavits,
4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59, s. 140.
Death of debtor or witness.
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ports to be signed by the Registrar, or is certified as a true copy by the Registrar, be receivable in evidence in all legal proceedings whatsoever.
119. Subject to general rules, any affidavit to be used in a bankruptcy court may be sworn before any person authorised to administer oaths, or, in the case of a person who is out of the Colony, before a magis trate or justice of the peace or other person qualified to administer oaths in the country where he resides (he being certified to be a magistrate or justice of the peace, or qualified as aforesaid, by a British minister or British consul, or by a notary public).
120. In the case of the death of the debtor or his wife, or of a witness whose evidence has been received by the court in any proceeding under this Ordinance, 4 & 5 Geo, 5, the deposition of the person so deceased, purporting to be sealed with the seal of the court, or a copy thereof purporting to be so sealed, shall be admitted as evidence of the matters therein deposed to.
c. 59, s. 141.
Statements made to Official Receiver or trustee through an interpreter.
Certificate of
121. Any statement made by a debtor or creditor in any bankruptcy to the Official Receiver or trustee through an interpreter shall be deemed to have been made to the Official Receiver or trustee as the case may be respectively, and evidence thereof shall be receivable from the Official Receiver or trustee, on it being proved that the interpreter employed was either a sworn interpreter or that he held the sub- stantive or acting appointment of interpreter, or of clerk and interpreter, to the Official Receiver.
122. A certificate of the Official Receiver that a appointment person has been appointed trustee under this Ordin- of trustee.
ance shall be conclusive evidence of his appointment. 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59, s. 143.
Computation of time.
4 & 5 Geo. 5,
c. 59,
s 145 (1).
Ordinance
No. 5 of 1912.
4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59, s. 145 (2).
Ordinance No. 5 of 1898.
Service of notices.
4 & 5 Geo. 5,
c. 59, s. 146.
Miscellaneous.
123.-(1) Where by this Ordinance 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, then in the computation of that limited time the same shall be taken as exclusive of the day of that date or of the happening of that event, and as commencing at the beginning of the next following day; and the act or proceeding shall be done or taken at latest on the last day of that limited time as so computed.
(2) Where the limited time so appointed or allowed is less than six days public holidays and general holidays as defined by the Holidays Ordinance, 1912. shall not be reckoned in the computation of such time.
(3) Where the limited time so appointed or allowed expires on one of the days in this section specified, the act or proceeding shall be considered as done or taken in due time if it is done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the days in this section specified.
(4) The provisions of this section shall take effect notwithstanding anything contained in the Supreme Court (Vacations) Ordinance, 1898.
124. All notices and other documents for the service of which no special mode is directed may be sent by post to the last known address of the person
to be served therewith.
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