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Special Commissioner for receiving Evidence.
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CI. The District Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy and the Judges of the County Courts in England who sit at Places more than Twenty Miles from the General Post Office, and the Commissioners of Bankrupt and the Assistant Barristers and Recorders in Ireland, and the Sheriffs of Counties in Scotland, shall be Commissioners for the Purpose of taking Evidence under the Third Part of this Act in Cases where any Company is wound-up by the Courts of Chancery in England or Ireland or by the Court of Session in Scotland; and it shall be lawful for such Court to refer the whole or any Part of the Examination of any Witnesses under the Third Part of this Act to any such Commissioner, although such Commissioner is out of the Jurisdiction of the Court by which the Order or Decree for winding-up the Company was made; and every such Commissioner shall, in addition to any Power of summoning and examining Witnesses, and requiring the Production or Delivery of Documents, and certifying or punishing Defaults by Witnesses, which he might lawfully exercise as a District Commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy, Judge of a County Court, Commissioner of Bankrupt, Assistant Barrister, or Recorder, or as a Sheriff of a County, have in the Matter so referred to him all the same Powers of summoning and examining Witnesses, and requiring the Production or Delivery of Documents, and punishing Defaults by Witnesses, and allowing Costs and Charges and Expenses to Witnesses, as the Court which made the Order for winding-up the Company has; and the Examination so taken shall be returned or reported to such last-mentioned Court in such Manner as it directs.
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