Article 6 Filing of application with the court and venue for hearing

(1)

An FMI administration application must be filed with the court together with the witness statement and the statement of the proposed FMI administrator (“accompanying documents”).

(2)

The court must fix a venue for the hearing of the FMI administration application.

(3)

In fixing the venue the court must have regard to—

(a)

the desirability of the application being heard as soon as is reasonably practicable; and

(b)

the need to give the representatives of the infrastructure company a reasonable opportunity to attend the hearing.

(4)

There must also be filed with the court, at the same time as the FMI administration application or at any time after that, a sufficient number of copies of the application and accompanying documents for service under rule 7.

(5)

Each filed copy of the FMI administration application must—

(a)

have applied to it the seal of the court;

(b)

be endorsed with—

(i)

the date and time of filing; and

(ii)

the venue for the hearing of the FMI administration application; and

(c)

be issued to the Bank for service under rule 7.