Section 106: Discretionary powers of Court
consolidated text (as at 2000). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
106. Discretionary powers of Court
(1) Subject to this Act and to general rules, the costs of, and incidental
to, any proceeding in Court under this Act shall be in the discretion of the
Court.
(2) The Court may at any time adjourn any proceedings before it upon
such terms, if any, as it thinks fit to impose.
(3) The Court may at any time amend any written process or proceeding
under this Act upon such terms, if any, as it thinks fit to impose.
(4) Where by this Act or by general rules, time for doing anything is limited, the Court may extend the time either before or after the expiration
thereof, upon such terms, if any as the Court thinks fit to impose.
(5) Subject to general rules, the Court may, in any matter, take the
whole or any part of the evidence either viva voce, or by interrogatories or
upon affidavit or by commission abroad.
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(6) For the purposes of approving a composition or scheme by joint debtors, the Court may, if it thinks fit, and on the report of the Official Receiver
that it is expedient so to do, dispense with the public examination of one of
such joint debtors if he is unavoidably prevented from attending the examination by illness or absence abroad.