580

Use of file by
Official
Receiver,

Vrforcement
of orders,

Form of
Petron,
Forms 3
and 4.

Presentation
of petition,

Advertise-
ment of
petition,
Form 5.

Ch. 31. No. 1.) Companies.

Court, and shall, except as to figures, be fairly written out at length, and
be sealed and delivered out without any unnecessary delay, and in the
order in which they shall have been bespoken.

14. Every person who has been a director or officer of a company which
is being wound up, shall be entitled, free of charge, and every contributory
and every creditor whose claim or proof has been admitted, shall be
entitled on payment of a fee of twenty-four cents for cach hour or part
of an hour occupied, at all reasonable times, to inspect the file of
proceedings and to take copies or extracts from any documents therein,
or be furnished with such copies or extracts at a rate not exceeding eight
cents per folio of seventy-two words.

15. Where, in the exercise of his functions under the Ordinance or rules,
the Official Receiver requires to inspect or use the file of proceedings the
Registrar of the Supreme Court shall (unless the file is at the time required
for use in Court or by him) on request, transmit the file of proceedings
to the Official Receiver.

Service and execution of process and enforcement of orders.

lo, (1) All notices, summonses, and other documents other than those
of which personal service is required, may be sent by prepaid post letter
to the last known address of the person to be served therewith; and the
notice, summons, or document shall be considered as served at the time
that the same ought to be delivered in the duc course of post by the
post office, and notwithstanding the same may be returned by the post
office.

(2) No service shall be deemed invalid by reason that the name, or
any of the names other than the surname of the person to be served, has
been omitted from the document containing the person’s name, provided
that the Court is satisfied that in other respects the service of the document
has been sufficient.

17. Every order of the Court made in the exercise of the powers
conferred by the Ordinance and rules, may be enforced as if it were
a judgment or order of the Court made in the exercise of its ordinary
jurisdiction.

Petition.
18. Every petition for the winding up of a company by the Court, or
subject to the supervision of the Court, shall be in the forms Nos. 3 and 4
in the Appendix with such variations as circumstances may require.

19. A petition shall be presented at the office of the Registrar of the
Supreme Court, who shall appoint the time and place at which the petition
is to be heard. Notice of the time and place appointed for hearing the
petition shall be written on the petition and sealed copies thereof, and
the said Registrar may at any time before the petition has been advertised,
alter the time appointed, and fix another time.

20. (1) Every petition shall be advertised seven clear days before the
hearing once in the Roval Gazette, and once at least in one local daily
newspaper, or in such other newspaper as the Court directs.