ORDER
60
THE REGISTRY
Distribution of business (O. 60, r. 1)
1.
—(1)
The
Registry shall be divided into such departments, and the business
performed in the Registry shall be distributed among the departments
in such manner, as the Chief Justice or the Senior District Judge,
as the case may be, may direct.
(2)
The Registry shall be under the control
and supervision of the Registrar.
Information
to be maintained by Registry (O. 60, r. 2)
2.
—(1)
The
Registrar shall cause to be maintained such information as is prescribed
or required to be kept by these Rules and by practice directions
issued by the Registrar.
(2)
The Registrar may maintain at his
discretion all the information referred to in paragraph (1) in such
medium or mode as he may determine.
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Date of filing to
be marked, etc. (O. 60, r. 3)
3.
Any
document filed in the Registry in any proceedings must be sealed
with a seal showing the date on which the document was filed and
any document not required by these Rules to be sealed must show
the date on which it was filed.
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Right to search
information and inspect, etc., certain documents filed in Registry
(O. 60, r. 4)
4.
—(1)
Any
person shall, on payment of the prescribed fee and without leave
of the Registrar, be entitled to search the information referred
to in Rule 2.
(2)
Any person may,
with the leave of the Registrar and on payment of the prescribed
fee, be entitled during office hours to search for, inspect and
take a copy of any of the documents filed in the Registry.
(3)
Nothing in paragraph
(2) shall be taken as preventing any party to a cause or matter
searching for, inspecting and taking or bespeaking a copy of any
affidavit or other document filed in the Registry in that cause
or matter or filed therein before the commencement of that cause
or matter but made with a view to its commencement.
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Deposit of document (O. 60, r. 5)
5.
Where
the Court orders any documents to be lodged in Court, then, unless
the order directs that the documents be so lodged by being deposited
with the Accountant-General, the documents must be deposited in
the Registry.
Filing of instruments creating powers of attorney
(O. 60, r. 6)
6.
—(1)
An
instrument creating a power of attorney which is presented for deposit
in the Registry of the Supreme Court under section 48 of the Conveyancing
and Law of Property Act (Chapter 61), shall not be deposited therein
unless the execution of the instrument has been verified in accordance
with Rule 7 and the instrument is accompanied, except where Rule
7 (b) applies, by the affidavit, declaration,
certificate or other evidence by which the execution was verified.
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(2)
Without prejudice to section 48 of
the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act (Chapter 61), a certified
copy of an instrument creating a power of attorney which is presented
for deposit in the Registry of the Supreme Court under that section
shall not be deposited therein unless —(a)
the execution of the instrument has
been verified in accordance with Rule 7;
(b)
the signature of the person who verified
the copy is sufficiently verified; and
(c)
except where Rule 7 (b)
applies and subject to paragraph (3), the copy is accompanied by
the affidavit, declaration, certificate or other evidence by which
the execution was verified.
(3)
If the affidavit, declaration, certificate
or other evidence verifying the execution of the instrument is so
bound up with or attached to the instrument that they cannot conveniently
be separated, it shall be sufficient for the purpose of paragraph
(2) to produce and show to the proper officer in the Registry the
original affidavit, declaration, certificate or other evidence and
to file a certified or office copy thereof.
Verification of execution of power of attorney (O.
60, r. 7)
7.
The
execution of such an instrument or statutory declaration as is referred
to in Rule 6 (1) may be verified —(a)
by an affidavit or statutory declaration
sworn or made by the attesting witness or some other person in whose
presence the instrument was executed, or, if no such person is available,
by some impartial person who knows the signature of the donor of
the power of attorney created by the instrument;
(b)
if the instrument was attested by
a Commissioner for Oaths, by the signature of the Commissioner as
attesting witness; or
(c)
by such other evidence as, in the
opinion of the Registrar is sufficient.
Inspection, etc., of powers of attorney (O. 60, r.
8)
8.
—(1)
The Registry of the Supreme
Court shall keep record of an index of all instruments and certified copies
to which Rule 6 relates deposited in the said Registry and of the
names of the donors of the powers of attorney created by such instruments.
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(2)
Any person shall, on payment of the
prescribed fee, be entitled —(a)
to
search the record referred to in paragraph (1);
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(b)
to inspect any document filed or deposited
in the Registry in accordance with Rule 6; and
(c)
to be supplied with an office copy
of such document; and a copy of any such document may be presented
at the Registry to be marked as an office copy.
Restriction on removal of documents (O. 60, r. 9)
9.
No
document filed in or in the custody of the Registry shall be taken
out of it without the leave of the Court unless the document is
to be sent to a Subordinate Court or the Supreme Court, as the case
may be.