SUITORS' FUNDS ORDINANCE, 1896

SUITORS' FUNDS ORDINANCE, 1896

No. 5 of 1896.

An Ordinance to amend the law as to the moneys. of suitors
Paid into the Supreme Court.
[18th April, 1896.].

1. This Ordinance may be c ited as the Suitors' Funds
Ordinance, 1896.

[ss. 2 and 3, rep. No. 34 Of 1931.]

The references are to the Revised Edition of the Statutes.
- Commonly cited as sections 15 and 17.
4. The Chief justice may, with the concurrence of the
Governor, make rules for regulating the deposit, payment,
delivery, and transfer in, into, and out of the Suprem c Court
of money, securities, and movable property of suitors and the
evidence of such deposit, payment, delivery, or transfer, and
the investment of and other dealings with money, securities,
and movable property in court, and the execution of the orders
of the court, and the powers and duties of the Registrar with
reference to such money, securities, and property, and, in
particular, for doing all or any of the following things:-

(1) regulating the placing on and withdrawal from deposit
of money in court, and the payment or crediting of interest on
money placed on deposit;

(2) 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;

(3 determining the time at which money placed on deposit
is to begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of com-
puting such interest; and

(4) determining the cases in which interest on money placed
on deposit and the dividends on any securities standing in the
name of the Registrar is or are to be placed on deposit.
[Originally No. 8 of 1896. No. 34 of 1931.] Short title. [1.1.32.] Making of rules.

[Originally No. 8 of 1896. No. 34 of 1931.] Short title. [1.1.32.] Making of rules.

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