### District Court Suitors’ Funds Rules 《區域法院訴訟人儲存金規則》

11. Payment out, transfer, etc. of fund to personal representative of person entitled to payment
(1) When funds in court are by an order directed to be paid, transferred or delivered to any person named or described in an order or in a certificate of the Registrar (except to a person therein expressed to be entitled to such funds as trustee, executor or administrator, or otherwise than in his own right or for his own use), such funds or any portion thereof for the time being remaining unpaid or untransferred or undelivered may, unless the order otherwise directs, on proof of the death of such person whether on or after the date of such order or in the case of payment directed to be made to a creditor as such before the date of such order, be paid or transferred or delivered to the legal personal representatives of such deceased person or to the survivors of them.
(2) If no administration has been taken out to such deceased person who has died intestate and whose assets do not exceed the value of $5,000 including the amount of the funds directed to be so paid, transferred or delivered to him, such funds may be paid, transferred or delivered to the person who being widow, child, father, mother, brother or sister of the deceased would be entitled to take out administration to his estate upon a declaration by such person in Form 6 in the Schedule.
(3) When funds in court are by an order directed to be paid, transferred or delivered to any persons as legal personal representatives, such funds or any portion thereof for the time being remaining unpaid, untransferred or undelivered may, upon proof of the death of any of such representatives, whether on or after the date of such order be paid, transferred or delivered to the survivors of them.
(4) No funds shall under this rule be paid, transferred or delivered out of court to the legal personal representatives of any person under any probate or letters of administration purporting to be granted at any time subsequent to the expiration of two years from the date of the order directing such payment, transfer or delivery, or in case such funds consist of interest or dividends, from the date of the last receipt of such interest or dividends. (L.N. 149 of 2015)

### District Court Suitors’ Funds Rules 《區域法院訴訟人儲存金規則》

12. Order directing payment out, transfer etc. to describe person entitled to payment etc.
(1) Every order which directs funds in court to be paid, transferred or delivered out shall set forth in full the name of every person to whom such payment, transfer or delivery is to be made unless the name is to be stated in a certificate of the Registrar and in the case of payment to a firm, it shall be sufficient to state the business name of such firm.
(2) When money in court is by an order directed to be paid to any persons described in the order or in a certificate of the Registrar as co-partners, such money may be paid to any one or more of such co-partners or to the survivors of them. (L.N. 149 of 2015)

13. Order directing investment of money lodged in court
(1) When money lodged in court is by an order directed to be invested, the party having the carriage of the order shall lodge with the Registrar a request in writing for the investment to be effected and the Registrar shall thereupon procure the investment of such money in the manner directed by the order.
(2) An order directing investment of money lodged in court shall set forth the name or the name of the office of the person in whose name such money is directed to be invested.

14. Order directing other dealings with money lodged in court
When money in court is by an order directed to be dealt with otherwise than by lodgment, withdrawal, transfer or investment, the party having the carriage of the order shall lodge with the Registrar a request in writing for the money to be dealt with in the terms of the order, and the Registrar shall thereupon act in accordance with such order.

15. Carrying over of funds to separate account
When funds in court are ordered to be carried over to a separate account, the title of the account to be opened for the purpose must state the title of the cause or matter to which such funds are standing.
(L.N. 149 of 2015)

### District Court Suitors’ Funds Rules 《區域法院訴訟人儲存金規則》

17. Surplus income
The Registrar shall pay into the Treasury as soon as is practicable after the end of each financial year any sum standing in the District Court Suitors’ Funds Account over and above the amounts required by these rules to be credited to the various accounts, and such sum shall be transferred into the general revenue of Hong Kong.

18. Cost of administrating Suitors’ Funds Account
The cost of administrating the various accounts required to be kept under these rules shall be defrayed out of the general revenue of Hong Kong.

19. Evidence by affidavit of life or fulfilment of condition
Where any person is entitled under an order to receive dividends or other periodical payments and the Registrar requires evidence of life or of the fulfilment of any conditions before payment to the person can be made, such evidence shall be furnished by affidavit.
(L.N. 149 of 2015)

20. Evidence by affidavit or declaration of other matters
When, in carrying into effect the directions of an order, evidence is required by the Registrar for any purposes other than those included in rule 19, he may receive and act upon an affidavit or upon a statutory declaration, and every such affidavit or statutory declaration shall be filed in court when the Registrar shall consider it necessary.

21. Certificate of description and amount of funds
(1) The Registrar, upon a request signed by or on behalf of a person claiming to be interested in any funds in court standing to the credit of any account specified in such request, shall, unless there is good reason for refusing, issue a certificate of the amount and description of such funds, and such certificate must refer to the state of the account at the beginning of the day of the date of the certificate, and must not include the transactions of that day.
(2) The Registrar shall notify on a certificate issued under paragraph (1)—
(a) the dates of any charging order affecting or of any order restraining the transfer, sale, payment, delivery out or other dealing with the funds in court to the credit of the account specified in the certificate, in respect of which order he has received notice;
(b) whether such charging or restraining order affects the principal, interest or dividend that comprises the funds; and
(c) the names of the persons to whom the certificate is to be issued or in whose favour such charging or restraining order has been made.
(3) The Registrar may redate any certificate issued under paragraph (1) if no alteration in the amount or description of funds has been made since the issue of the certificate.
(L.N. 149 of 2015)

### District Court Suitors’ Funds Rules 《區域法院訴訟人儲存金規則》

22. Transcript of accounts in Registrar’s books
Upon a request signed by or on behalf of a person claiming to be interested in funds in court, the Registrar shall, unless there is good reason for refusing—
(a) issue a transcript of the account in his books specified in such request; and
(b) supply such other information or issue such certificates with respect to any transactions or dealings with funds in court as may from time to time be required in any particular case.

23. (Repealed 25 of 1998 s. 2) 

### District Court Ordinance 《區域法院條例》

1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the District Court Ordinance.