Joint Stock Companies Act 1856

Power of Vice-Warden of Stannaries to make Rules.

Court of Stannaries.

Service of Process.

Appeal in Cases of Winding-up.

XCVIII. The Vice-Warden of the Stannaries may from Time to Time, with the Approval of the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, make such General Rules as may be necessary or expedient for the Purpose of carrying into execution the Powers conferred by this Act upon the Court of the said Vice-Warden; but, subject to such Rules, the general Practice of the said Court in Cases within the Jurisdiction thereof shall, so far as the same is applicable, and not inconsistent with this Act, apply to all Proceedings under this Act, and any Order made by the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries may be enforced in the same Manner in which Orders made in Proceedings within the ordinary Jurisdiction of such Court, are enforced; and for the Purpose of Jurisdiction any Company registered under this Act engaged in working any Mine within and subject to the Jurisdiction of the Stannaries shall be deemed to be resident within the Stannaries, and at the Place where such Mine is situate: It shall be competent for the Vice-Warden in any Suit instituted against, any Shareholder or Contributory of a Company so registered to authorize the Service of Process on such Shareholder or Contributory in any Part of England or Wales; provided, that it shall be lawful for the Lord Warden to remit at once any Cause or Matter pending before him on Appeal against any Decree or Order of the Court made in pursuance of the Power conferred upon it by this Act for the winding-up of such a Company to the Court of Appeal in Chancery, which shall thereupon have Power to hear and determine such Appeal, and to make such Order or Orders therein as may seem fit.