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CAP. 4]

Supreme Court Suitors' Funds Rules

[1979 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

L.N. 124/79.

SUPREME COURT SUITORS' FUNDS RULES

(Cap. 4, section 57)

Citation.

Interpretation.

[11 May 1979.]

PRELIMINARY

These rules may be cited as the Supreme Court Suitors' Funds Rules.

1.

2. In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires—

“Accountant” means the Judiciary Accountant;

“court” means the Supreme Court;

“funds” or “funds in court” means any money or securities, movable property or any part thereof standing in or to be placed to the Registrar's account and includes boxes and other effects;

“ledger credit” means the title of the cause or matter and the separate account (if any) opened or to be opened under an order or otherwise in the books of the Registrar to which any funds are credited or to be credited;

“lodge in court” means pay or transfer into court or deposit in court, and “lodgment in court” has a corresponding meaning;

“order” means an order of the court and includes a judgment or decree and includes the schedule or schedules to an order;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of the court;

“title of the cause or matter” means the short title of the cause or matter with reference to the record.

Lodgment of funds.

Schedule, Form 1.

LODGMENT OF FUNDS IN COURT

3. (1) All funds to be lodged in court on any ledger credit shall, unless required by any law to be dealt with in any particular way, be lodged with the Registrar who shall give to the person making the lodgment a receipt in respect thereof.

(2) When it is proposed to lodge in court any securities, movable property, boxes or other effects, the Registrar may make such inspection thereof as he thinks fit, before giving to the person making the lodgment a receipt in respect thereof.

(3) Every receipt given in respect of any lodgment shall be headed with the title of the cause or matter and the title of the ledger account to which the lodgment is referable and shall contain adequate particulars as to such lodgment and shall be as nearly as may be in Form 1 in the Schedule.