Companies. [Ch. 31. No. 1.

 

(2) Every application in Chambers shall be made by summons
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.

Proceedings.

7. (1) Every proceeding in a winding up matter shall be dated, and
shall with any necessary additions, be intituled in the matter of the
company to which it relates and in the matter of the Companies Ordinance,
and otherwise as in form 2. Numbers and dates may be denoted by
fipures.

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

8. All proceedings shall be written or printed, or partly written and
partly printed on paper of the size of thirteen inches in length and eight
inches in breadth, and must have 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.

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

10. Every summons in a winding up matter in the Court shall be
prepared by the applicant or his solicitor, and issued from the office of
the Registrar of the Supreme Court. A summons, when sealed, shall be
deemed to be issued. The person obtaining the summons shall leave in
the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court a duplicate which shall
be stamped with the prescribed stamp and filed.

11. Every order, whether made in Court or in Chambers in the winding
up of a company shall be drawn up by the Registrar of the Supreme
Court unless in any proceeding, or classes of proceedings, the Judge or
the said Registrar who makes the order shall direct that no order need
be drawn up. Where a direction is given that no order need be drawn
up, the note or memorandum of the order, signed or initialled by the
Judge or the said Registrar making the order, shall be sufficient evidence
of the order having been made.

12. All petitions, affidavits, summonses, orders, proofs, notices,
depositions, bills of costs and other proceedings in the Court in a winding
up matter shall be kept and remain on record in the office of the Registrar
of the Supreme Court and, subject to the directions of the Court, shall be
placed in one continuous file.

13. All office copies of petitions, affidavits, depositions, papers and
writings, or any part thereof, required by the Official Receiver or any
liquidator, contributory, creditor, officer of a company, or other person
entitled thereto, shall be provided by the Registrar of the Supreme

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Title of
proceedings.

Form 2.

Written or
printed
proceedings.

Process to

be scaled.

Issues of
summonses.

File of
proceedings
in office of
Registrar of
the Supreme
Court.

Office
copies.