PART IConversion or Redemption of New Three per Cent Stock
6Funds in court
(1)
Where any new three per cent. stock is standing in the name or in the books of any of the following officers, namely,—
(a)
Her Majesty's Paymaster General on behalf of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England ; or
(b)
the Accountant to the Court of Session in Scotland; or
(c)
the Accountant General of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Ireland;
dissent from the conversion thereof may, on the request and on behalf of any suitors or other persons interested therein, be signified by those officers respectively, and may be so signified at any time on or before the twelfth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
(2)
The High Courts and the Court of Session respectively may, from time to time, on application by summons in chambers or in such other way as may be directed, as respects the High Court in England by the Lord Chancellor, as respects the Court of Session by the Lord President, and as respects the High Court in Ireland by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, make general or special orders as to signifying dissents with respect to new three per cent. stock, or as to any other thing relating to that stock or the dividends thereon, or to the stock to be created in lieu thereof, or to the application of any such stock, or of the dividends thereon.