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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 31,

1936. 1163

6. Subject to the provisions of the Ordinance and Applications Rules:-

(1) The Registrar may under the general or special directions of a Judge hear and determine any application or matter which under the Ordinance and Rules may be heard and determined in Chambers.

(2) Any matter or application before the Registrar may at any time be adjourned by him to be heard before a Judge. (3) Any matter or application may, if a Judge thinks fit, be adjourned from Chambers to Court, or from Court to Chambers.

in Chambers.

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Summonses.

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7.-(1) Every application in Court other than a petition, Motions and shall be made by motion, notice of which shall be served on every person against whom an order is sought, not less than two clear days before the day named in the notice for hearing Form 1. the motion.

(2) Every application in Chambers shall be made by sum- mons, which, unless otherwise ordered, shall be served on every person against whom an order is sought, and shall require the person or persons to whom the summons is addressed to attend at the time and place named in the summons.

(3) Every application by the Liquidator to the Court for directions in relation to any particular matter arising under the winding-up shall be made in chambers.

Court.

8. Subject to the provisions of the Ordinance, the times Times for of the Sitting of the Court in matters of the winding-up of holding Companies shall be those which are appointed for the trans- R 10. action of the general business of the Court, unless a Judge shall otherwise order.

Proceedings.

9.-(1) Every proceeding in a winding-up matter shall Title of be dated, and shall, with any necessary additions, be intituled proceedings. as follows:

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG Kong.

COMPANIES (WINDING-UP). No.

OF 19

In the Matter of the Companies Ordinance, 1932.

and in the matter of the company to which it relates. Numbers and dates may be denoted by figures.

(2) The first proceeding in every winding-up matter shall have a distinctive number assigned to it in the office of the Registrar, and all proceedings in any matter subsequent to the first proceeding shall bear the same number as the first proceeding.

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10. All proceedings shall be written or printed, or partly Written or written or partly printed, on paper of the size of 13 inches in printed

proceedings. length and 8 inches in breadth, or thereabouts, and must have R 12. a stitching margin; but no objection shall be allowed to any proof or affidavit on account only of its being written or printed on paper of other size.

11. All orders, summonses, petitions, warrants, process Process to of any kind (including notices when issued by the Court) and be scaled. office copies in any winding-up matter shall be sealed.

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