--(1) On an application by the marshal the court may unless any claimant objects summarily determine the question in issue between the parties and order accordingly.
--(2) On any other application the court may order-
----(a) that any person claiming the money, goods or chattels be made a defendant in any pending claim relating to such money, goods or chattels either in addition to or in substitution for the applicant for relief; or
----(b) that the issue between two or more persons claiming the money, goods or chattels be tried, and may direct which person claiming is to be the claimant in those proceedings and which the defendant.
--(3) Where a person making a claim to any money, goods or chattels who has been served with the application-
----(a) fails to attend the hearing; or
----(b) fails to comply with any order made by the court, the court may make an order barring that person and any persons claiming under him forever from prosecuting his claim to the money, goods or chattels as against the applicant and all persons claiming under him.
--(4) An order under paragraph (3) does not affect the rights as between the persons claiming the money, goods or chattels.
Notes
Amended by Legal Notice 140 of 2000.
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