THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 31, 1936. 1175
(3) The Registrar or other officer shall, before the con- clusion of the examination at which the default in answering is made, name the time when and the place where the default will be reported to a Judge, and upon receiving the report a Judge may take such action thereon as he shall think fit. If a Judge is sitting at the time when the default in answering is made, such default may be reported immediately.
examina-
62.--(1) The Official Receiver may attend in person, or Depositions by an Assistant Official Receiver, or by counsel or by solicitors at private employed for the purpose, any examination of a witness tions. under section 207 of the Ordinance, on whosesoever applica- R 72 tion the same has been ordered, and may take notes of the examination for his own use, and put such questions to the persons examined as the Court may allow.
(2) The notes of the depositions of a person examined under section 207 of the Ordinance, or under any order of the Court before the Court, or before any officer of the Court, or person appointed to take such an examination (other than the notes of the depositions of a person examined at a public ex- amination under section 208 of the Ordinance) shall not be filed, or be open to the inspection of any creditor, contributory, or other person, except the Official Receiver or Liquidator, or any Provisional Liquidator other than the Official Receiver, while he is acting as Provisional Liquidator, unless and until the Court shall so direct, and the Court may from time to time give such general or special directions as it shall think expedient as to the custody and inspection of such notes and the furnishing of copies of or extracts therefrom.
Disclaimer.
Forms 39 and 40.
63.--(1) Any application for leave to disclaim any part Disclaimer. of the property of a Company pursuant to subsection (1) of R. 73. section 254 of the Ordinance shall be by ex parte summons. Such summons shall be supported by an affidavit showing who On the are the parties interested and what their interests are. hearing of the summons the Court shall give such directions as it sees fit and in particular directions as to the notices to be given to the parties interested or any of them and the Court may adjourn the application to enable any such party to attend.
(2) Where a liquidator disclaims a leasehold interest he shall forthwith file the disclaimer at the office of the Registrar and, when the property is situate in the Colony, register a notice thereof in the Land Office. The disclaimer shall contain particulars of the interest disclaimed and a statement of the persons to whom notice of the disclaimer has been given. Until the disclaimer is filed by the liquidator and, when the property is situate in the Colony, a notice thereof is registered in the Land Office the disclaimer shall be inoperative. A dis- claimer shall be in the Form No. 39 and a notice of disclaimer in the Form 40 in the Appendix with such variations as circum- stances may require.
(3) Where any person claims to be interested in any part of the property of a Company which the liquidator wishes to disclaim he shall at the request of the liquidator furnish a statement of the interest so claimed by him.
Vesting of Disclaimed Property.
64.-(1) Any application under subsection (6) of Vesting of section 254 of the Ordinance for an order for the vesting of disclaimed any disclaimed property in or the delivery of any such property. 74.
property.
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