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Queen's printers, and purport to be issued under the authority of the Board of Trade.[1]
Enlargement or abridgment of time.

176. The Court may, in any case in which it shall see fit, extend or abridge the time appointed by these rules or fixed by any Order of the Court for doing any act or taking any proceeding.

Formal defect not to invalidate proceedings.

177.—(1) No proceeding under the Acts shall be invalidated by any formal defect or by any irregularity, unless the Court before which an objection is made to the proceeding is of opinion that substantial injustice has been caused by the defect or irregularity, and that the injustice cannot be remedied by any order of that Court.

(2) No defect or irregularity in the appointment or election of a Receiver, Liquidator, or member of a committee of inspection shall vitiate any act done by him in good faith.

Application of existing procedure.

178. In all proceedings in or before the Court, or any Judge or officer thereof, or over which the Court has jurisdiction under the Acts and rules where no other provision is made by the Acts or these rules, the practice, proceeding, and regulations shall unless the Court otherwise in any special case directs, in the High Court and Stannaries Court be in accordance with the Rules of the Supreme Court and practice of the High Court, and in a County Court and Palatine Court in accordance, as far as practicable, with the existing rules and practice of the Court in proceedings for the administration of assets by the Court.

Answering petitions in Liverpool and Manchester District Registries.

179. The provisions of Rule 2 of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1887,[2] relating to petitions in the District Registries of Liverpool and Manchester, shall apply to petitions presented in those Registries under the Acts and these rules.

Rules under Order of 1862 in compulsory windings up after December 31,1890.

180. The rules contained in the General Orders of the Court of Chancery of 1862[3] and the forms prescribed by such rules, shall from and after the commencement of these rules cease to got to apply have effect or apply in the winding up of any company wound up under the Order of the Court where the Winding-up Order is made after the 31st of December 1890.

(Signed)Halsbury, C.

I concur.

(Signed)M. E. Hicks-Beach, President of the Board of Trade.

The 29th of November 1890.

  1. ↑ See Order of the Board of Trade dated December 31, 1890, printed at p. 822 below.
  2. ↑ "The Rules of the Supreme Court, May 1887," are published as a Stationery Office Publication.
  3. ↑ The General Order of November 11, 1862, is published as a Stationery Office Publication.
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