Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
66. Within the Towns of Rangoon, Maulmain, Akyab and Bassein, the llecorder shall have and exercise such powers and authorities with respect to insolvent debtors and their ereditom as are for the time being exercisable with respect to insolvent debtors and their creditors by the High Court or a Judge theyeof, in Calcutta.
The procedure in cases brought before thc Recorder in the exercise of such jurisdiction shall be, as far as may be practicable, in accordance with the procedure gresc~ibed by the 11th & 12th of Victoria, chapter twenty-one.
The Recorder shall, with the previous sanction of the Chief Commissioner, appoint a person to be official assignee in all insolvencies to be prosecuted in the Court of the Eecorder ; and the provisions of the said
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said Statute relating to official assignees shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to the assignee so appointed.
Every order made by the Recorder in the exercise ol the jurisdiction conforred by this section shall have the same force throughout British India as if it had been made by the High Court or a Judge thereof,
and all the provisions of the said Statute relating to the persons or property of insolvents shall, mmtatis &utmdis, apply to insolvents applying for relief under this section.
Any person thinking himself aggrieved by any adjudication, order or proceeding of the Court of the Recorder under this section may present, within one month thereafter, a petition to the Special. Oourt ; and such Court shall enquire into the matter of the petition and make such order thereon as it thinks just, and such order shall be final and .conclusive on all parties, and shall be binding on She Court of the Recorder.
The Recorder may, from time to time, with the previous sanction of the Chief Commissioner, make rules consistent with this Act for facilitating within his jurisdiction the relief intended to be hereby given ; and such rules, on being published in the British Barma Gazette, shall have the force of lam.
No conveyance, letter-of-attorney, or other instrument executed under any order of the ;Recorder in exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by this section, shall be chargeable with stamp-duty.
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(a) make and issue general rules for regulating practice. the practice and procedure of his Court and the levy sf costs in suits therein ;
, (6) prescribe forms for every proceeding in his Court for which he thinks that a form should be provided, and
`(G)` from time to timc alter any such rnle or form.
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, The rules so made, and the forms so framed, shall 'be published in the Bq*it'is?h Bu~flza Cccu"ette, and after being so published shall be observcd and used in the said Court :
Provided that such rules and forms shall be consistent with the Codes oI Civil and Criminal Procedure and any other lam for the time being in force in British Burma, and shall, before they are so published, have received the sanction of tile Chief Commissioner.
Source: India Code