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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 18, 1932.

PART II.

Matters to

be heard

in court.

R6,

Adjourn- ment from

chambers to court and vice versa.

RO.

Proceedings how intituled. R10.

Form 1.

GENERAL PROCEDURE.

Court and Chambers.

5. The following matters and applications shall be heard and determined in open court:-

(a) petitions, provided that a debtor's petition may be heard in chambers if urgent, and if the judge so directs;

(b) applications for adjudication;

(c) applications to rescind a receiving order, or to

annul an adjudication;

(d) the public examination of debtors;

(e) applications to approve a composition

scheme of arrangement;

(f) applications for orders of discharge;

or

(g) applications to set aside or avoid any settle- ment, conveyance, transfer, security, or pay- ment, or to declare for or against the title of the trustee to any property adversely claimed;

(h) applications for the committal of any person

to prison for contempt;

(i) appeals against the rejection of a proof, or applications to expunge or reduce a proof, where the amount in dispute exceeds two thousand dollars;

(j) applications for the trial of issues of fact with a jury, and the trial of such issues;

(k) any other matter which the Chief Justice

may direct.

Any other matter or application may be heard and determined in chambers, unless the Chief Justice directs that it be heard and determined in open court.

6. Subject to the provisions of the Ordinance and these Rules, any matter or application may, at any time, if the Judge thinks fit, be adjourned from chambers to court or from court to chambers; and if all the contending parties require any matter or application to be adjourned from chambers to court it shall be so adjourned.

Proceedings.

7.—(1) Every proceeding in court under the Ordin- ance shall be dated, and shall be intituled "In Bank- ruptcy" and with the name of the matter to which it relates. Numbers and dates may be denoted by figures.

(2) All applications and orders shall be intituled ex parte the applicant.

(2) The first proceeding in every matter shall have a distinctive number assigned to it by the Official Receiver and all subsequent proceedings in the same matter shall bear the same number.