ORDER 55

THE EXAMINER

I. Powers and duties

1. The Examiner shall take such accounts and conduct such inquiries as may be ordered by the court, and may make such orders of an interlocutory nature as have heretofore been made by the Examiner, and shall perform and fulfil such other duties and functions as have heretofore been performed and fulfilled by the Examiner or as shall from time to time be conferred on or assigned to him by statute or rule of court.

2. The Examiner shall, for the purpose of any proceedings before him have power to issue advertisements, to summon parties and witnesses, to administer oaths, to require the production of documents, to take affidavits and acknowledgements, and, where an account consists in part of a bill of costs, to request the Legal Costs Adjudicator to assist in settling such costs by adjudicating such bill, and when so directed by the Court, to examine parties and witnesses either upon interrogatories or viva voce.