Full legislation
s.45
Chief Justice may make rules
(1)
The Chief Justice may make
rules—
(Amended
20 of 2014 s. 25
)
(a)
regulating the procedure
for—
(i)
applying for review, and the hearing of such applications, under
section 31
;
(ii)
applying for leave to appeal, and the hearing of such applications,
under
sections 32
and
35A
;
(Amended
25 of 1976 s. 7
)
(iii)
the hearing of appeals under
sections 35
and
35B
;
(Replaced
29 of 1974 s. 9
. Amended
79 of 1981 s. 9
)
(b)
regulating the transfer of proceedings to the Small Claims Tribunal, the
District Court or the Court of First Instance;
(Amended
25 of 1998 s. 2
;
25 of 1999 s. 17
)
(c)
providing for matters of procedure which are not provided for in this
Ordinance;
(d)
prescribing anything which is to be or may be prescribed;
(e)
prescribing the fees and costs applicable to proceedings in the
tribunal;
(f)
(Repealed
25 of 1976 s. 7
)
(g)
generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this
Ordinance.
(2)
Without limiting subsection (1), the Chief Justice may make rules for regulating
the following
matters—
(a)
the deposit, payment, delivery, and transfer in, into, and out of the
tribunal of money and movable property of suitors;
(b)
the evidence of such deposit, payment, delivery, or transfer, and the
investment of and other dealings with money and movable property in the
tribunal; and
(c)
the powers and duties of the registrar with reference to such money and
movable property.
(Added
20 of 2014 s. 25
)
(3)
Without limiting subsection (2), rules made under that subsection may provide
for—
(a)
regulating the placing on and withdrawal from deposit of money in the
tribunal, and the payment or crediting of interest on money placed on
deposit;
(b)
determining the smallest amount of money on deposit on which interest is to
be credited to an account to which money placed on deposit belongs;
(c)
determining the time at which money placed on deposit is to begin and to
cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest;
(d)
determining the cases in which money placed on deposit is to begin and to
cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest;
(e)
determining the cases in which interest on money placed on deposit is to be
placed on deposit; and
(f)
disposing of money remaining unclaimed in the tribunal.
(Added
20 of 2014 s. 25
)