Admiralty Rules 1988

In a limitation proceeding, if persons are identified as respondents in the initiating process by reference to their being members of a specified class of persons, the court must, after determining whether the liability of the applicant may be limited and the extent of that liability, make orders:

specifying how the determination is to be advertised; and

fixing a period, ending not less than 2 months after the latest day allowed for the advertisement of the determination, as the period within which a person who claims to have a maritime claim against the applicant in respect of which the applicant’s liability has been determined:

may prosecute that claim; or

may apply under rule 64.

The advertisement of a determination must be in accordance with Form 24.

The court need not make an order under subrule (1) if the court is satisfied that all members of the class of persons concerned have been served with initiating process.