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Section 697 of Insolvency Act CAP 53: Power to make insolvency procedure rules

    

(1) The Rules Committee, with the addition of the Official Receiver, may make rules providing for either or both of the following—
(a) the procedure of the Court under this Act;
(b) appeals to the Court of Appeal from decisions of the Court under this Act.
(2) Matters that may be dealt with by the rules include the following—
(a) how proceedings may be commenced;
(b) where proceedings may be commenced;
(c) the forms to be used in proceedings;
(d) the service or issue of documents relating to proceedings;
(e) the amendment of defects and errors in proceedings;
(f) how evidence may be given in proceedings;
(g) how the identity of persons who are parties to, or involved in, proceedings can be proved;
(h) how witnesses in the proceedings are summoned and documents served or issued in the proceedings may be discovered;
(i) the right of creditors and other persons to appear in proceedings, and the procedure to be followed in the absence of creditors or other persons;
(j) the notices required to be given in connection with proceedings, and who may give them and to whom;
(k) the manner of advertising proceedings;
(l) the consolidation of proceedings;
(m) the substitution of parties to proceedings;
(n) authorising the continuation of proceedings after the death of a debtor who is a party to proceedings;
(o) authorising proceedings to be begun against one or more partners of a business partnership without including the others, and providing for the disclosure of the other partners;
(p) the scale of costs of advocates and others in proceedings;
(q) the award of costs and when security for costs has to be given;
(r) the execution of processes and the enforcement of orders under this Act;
(s) the deadline for appealing to the Court of Appeal and how the appeal may be brought.

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