2.
Interrogatories shall be in Form 30 with such modifications or variations as circumstances may
require.
Interrogatories to corporation or company.
3.
If any party to a cause or matter is a limited or unlimited company, body corporate, firm,
enterprises, friendly society, association or any other body or group of persons, whether
incorporated or not, empowered by the law to sue or be sued, whether in its own name or in the
name of any officer or other person, any opposite party may deliver interrogatories to any member
or officer of such party.
Objection to interrogatories by answer.
4.
Any objection to answering any one or more of several interrogatories on the ground that it is
or they are scandalous or irrelevant may be taken in the affidavit in answer.
Affidavit in answer; filing of.
5.
Interrogatories shall be answered by affidavit to be filed within seven days, or within such
other time as the judge may allow and shall be served, a copy thereof delivered to the party
that delivered the interrogatories as well as the other parties or as the Court or Judge may
direct.
Form of affidavit in answer; Civil Form 31.
6.
An affidavit in answer to interrogatories shall be in the Form 31 with such
modifications or variations as circumstances may require.
Order to answer, or answer further.
7.
If any person interrogated omits to answer or answers insufficiently, the judge shall on
application issue an order requiring him to answer or to answer further as the case may be.
Application for discovery of documents
8.
(1) Any party may in writing, request any other party to any cause or matter, to make
discovery on oath of the documents that are or have been in his possession, custody, power or
control, relating to any matter in question in the case. Request for discovery shall be served
within seven days of close of pleadings or within such period as the Court or Judge may direct
and shall form part of the proceedings. The party on whom such a request is served shall answer
on oath completely and truthfully within seven days of the request or within such other time as the
judge may allow.
(2)
Every affidavit in answer to a request for discovery of documents shall be accompanied by
copies of documents referred to therein.
Civil Form 32
(3) The affidavit to be made by any person in answer to a request for discovery of documents
shall specify which, if any, of the listed documents he objects to producing, stating the
grounds of his objection, and it shall be in Form 32 with such modifications or
variations as circumstances may require.
(4)
On the hearing of the application, the Court or Judge in Chambers may either refuse or
adjourn the hearing, if satisfied that the discovery is not necessary or make such order, either