Companies Act, 1862

Power to make rules in Stannaries court. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 32.

Fees. 19 & 20 Vict. c. 47

172. The vice warden of the Stannaries may from time to time, with the consent provided for by section twenty-three of the Stannaries Act, 1855, make rules for carrying into effect the powers conferred by this Act upon tho court of the vice warden; but, subject to such rules, the general practice of the said court and of the registrar's office in the said court, including the present practice of the said court in winding up companies, may be applied to all proceedings under this Act; the said vice warden may likewise, with the same consent, make from time to time rules for specifying the fees to be taken in his said court in proceedings under this Act; and any rules so made shall be of the same force as if they had been enacted in the body of this Act; and the fees paid in respect of proceeding taken under this Act, including fees taken under the Joint Stock Companies Act, 1856, in the matter of winding up companies, shall be applied exclusively towards payment of such additional officers, or such increase of the salaries of existing officers, or pensions to retired officers, or such other needful expenses of the court as the Lord Warden of the Stannaries shall from time to time, on the application of the vice warden or otherwise, think fit to direct, sanction, or assign, and meanwhile shall be kept as a separate fund apart from the ordinary fees of the court arising from other business, to await such direction and order of the Lord Warden herein, and to accumulate by investment in Government securities until the whole shall have been so appropriated.