Hong Kong Regulations

COMPANIES (WINDING-UP) RULES - RULE 62

Depositions at private examinations

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The Official Receiver or liquidator may attend in person, or by counsel or
by solicitors employed for the purpose, any examination of a witness under
section 221 of the Ordinance, on whosesoever application the same has been
ordered, and may take notes of the examination for his own use, and put such
question to the persons examined as the court may allow. (46 of 2000 s. 40)

(2) The notes of the depositions of a person examined under section 221 of the
Ordinance, or under any order of the court before the court, or before any
officer of the court, or person appointed to take such an examination (other
than the notes of the depositions of a person examined at a public examination
under section 222 of the Ordinance) shall not be filed, or be open to the
inspection of any creditor, contributory, or other person, except the
Official Receiver or liquidator, or any provisional liquidator other than the
Official Receiver, while he is acting as provisional liquidator, unless and
until the court shall so direct, and the court may from time to time give such
general or special directions as it shall think expedient as to the custody
and inspection of such notes and the furnishing of copies of or extracts
therefrom. [cf. R. 72]