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COMPANY.
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"Creditor" includes a corporation, and a firm of creditors in partnership.

"Gazetted" means published in the London Gazette.

"Judge" means in the High Court the Judge to whom the petition to wind up the company is assigned, and in any other Court the Judge thereof or officer who exercises the powers of the Judge thereof.

"Proceedings" means the proceedings in the winding up of a company under the Acts

"Official Receiver" includes any officer appointed by the Board of Trade to discharge the duties of Official Receiver under the Acts.

"Registrar," as applied to a County Court, includes, where there are joint Registrars, either of such Registrars, or a Deputy Registrar, and as applied to any Court other than the High Court, means and includes the officer of the Court whose duty it is to exercise in relation to a winding up the functions which in the High Court are exercised by a Registrar or chief clerk.

Sealed" means sealed with the seal of the Court.

"Taxing officer" means the officer of the Court whose duty it is to tax costs in the proceedings of the Court under its ordinary jurisdiction.

"Liquidator" includes an Official Receiver when acting as Liquidator.

(b) In the application of these rules to any Court other than the High Court, the Registrar may, under the general or special directions of the Judge, hear and determine any application or matter which under the Acts and these Rules may be determined in chambers.

Use of forms in Appendix.

3.—(1) The forms in the Appendix, where applicable, and

(2) Provided that the Board of Trade may from time to time alter any forms which relate to matters of an administrative and not of a judicial character, or substitute new forms in lieu thereof. Where the Board of Trade alters any form, or substitutes any new form in lieu of a form prescribed by these rules, such altered or substituted form shall be published in the London Gazette.

Court and Chambers.

Proceedings in High Court.

4. In the High Court―

(1) All matters and applications to the Court or a Judge in the winding up of a company as to which the procedure
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