39. Sections 296 and 297 of the principal enactment are hereby repealed and the following new sections substituted therefor:-
| 296. Whenever any person, whether acting for himself or as an attorney-at-law for any other person, has occasion to pay any sum of money into any court to the credit of any case, he shall deposit such sum of money to the credit of such case in the appropriate bank account. |
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| | (1) Whenever the Fiscal receives or realizes a sum of money in the course of the execution of a decree or otherwise, he shall issue a receipt for such sum to the person making payment, and shall forthwith deposit such sum of money to the credit of such case In the appropriate bank account. | | |
| | (2) In this and the preceding section "appropriate bank account " means the bank account of the court to whose credit or under whose authority such money is paid, received, or realized.'. | | |
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