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(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the exercise of any power relating to costs, including any power to make rules of court relating to costs.

(5) In this section―

(a) “interim payment”, in relation to a party to any proceedings, means a payment on account of any damages, debt or other sum (excluding any costs) which that party may be held liable to pay to or for the benefit of another party to the proceedings if a final judgment or order of the Court in the proceedings is given or made in favour of that other party; and

(b) any reference to a party to any proceedings includes a reference to any person who for the purposes of the proceedings acts as next friend or guardian of a party to the proceedings.

(6) This section shall bind the Crown so far as any proceedings to which the section is applicable can be brought by or against the Crown in accordance with the (Cap. 300.)Crown Proceedings Ordinance.

Rules concerning deposit, etc. of moneys, etc. in Supreme Court. 57. (1) The Chief Justice may make rules for regulating—

(a) the deposit, payment, delivery, and transfer in, into, and out of the Supreme Court of money, securities, and movable property of suitors;

(b) the evidence of such deposit, payment, delivery, or transfer, and the investment of and other dealings with money, securities, and movable property in court;

(c) the execution of the orders of the Supreme Court; and

(d) the powers and duties of the Registrar with reference to such money, securities, and property.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, rules made under this section may provide for—

(a) regulating the placing on and withdrawal from deposit of money in court, and the payment or crediting of interest on money placed on deposit;

(b) determining the smallest amount of money on deposit on which interest is to be credited to an account to which money placed on deposit belongs;

(c) determining the time at which money placed on deposit is to begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest;

(d) determining the cases in which money placed on deposit is to begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest;

(e) determining the cases in which interest on money placed on deposit and the dividends on any securities standing in the name of the Registrar is or are to be placed on deposit; and

(f) disposing of money, other than the balance of an intestate estate, remaining unclaimed in court or money remaining unclaimed in the Bankruptcy Estates Account established under section 128 of the (Cap. 6.)Bankruptcy Ordinance.