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COMPANY.
and practice is not altered by the Companies (Winding Up)Act, 1890, and these rules, and which according to the practice of the Court or the directions of the Judge have been heard in Court or in Chambers, shall continue to be so heard.

(2) Subject to the provisions of the Companies (Winding Up) Act, 1890, and these rules, applications to the Court under the said Act and these rules shall be heard in Court or in Chambers according as the Judge shall by any general or special directions order. Provided that appeals to the Court from the Official Receiver and Board of Trade and Liquidator shall be brought by notice of motion to the Court pursuant to the Rules of the Supreme Court with reference to motions.

Proceedings in Courts other than High Court.

5. In Courts other than the High Court the following matters and applications to the Court shall be heard in open Court :—

(a) Petitions.

(b) Public examinations.

(c) Applications under section 167 of the Companies Act, 1862.[1]

(d) Applications to rectify the register.

(e) Appeals from the Official Receiver and Board of Trade.

(f) Appeals from any decision or act of the Liquidator.

(g) Applications relating to the admission of rejection of proofs.

(h) Proceedings under section 10 of the Companies (Winding Up) Act.

Adjournment from Chambers to Court and vice versa.

6. Subject to the provisions of the Acts and rules, any matter or application in a Court other than the High Court may at any time, if the Judge thinks fit, be adjourned from Chambers to Court or from Court to Chambers; and if all the contending parties require any matter or application to be adjourned from Chambers into Court it shall be so adjourned.

Proceedings.

Proceedings, how intituled.;

7.—(1) Forms 1 and 2. Every proceeding in Court or in Chambers under the Act shall be dated, and shall be intituled "In the matter of the Companies Acts, 1862 to 1890," with the name of the Court in which it is taken, and of the company to which it relates. Numbers and dates may be denoted by figures.

(2) The first proceeding in every winding-up matter shall have a distinctive number assigned to it by the proper officer, and all subsequent proceedings in the same petition shall bear the same number.

Transfer by Judge of High Court.; [s. 3 of Act 1890.]

8. Form[2] A Judge of the High Court to whom the exercise of the jurisdiction to wind up companies is assigned may at any time,
  1. ↑ 20 & 30 Vict. c. 69.
  2. ↑ See Form 3, printed at p. 268 below.
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