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### 409 Answers to interrogatories and affidavit verifying
> > (1) [*\[Rule 409 Subrule (1) amended by S.R. 2011, No. 39, Applied:08 Jun 2011\]*](/view/html/inforce/2011-06-08/sr-2011-039#GS6@Hpa@EN) A person required to answer interrogatories is to answer each interrogatory by a document identifying each separate interrogatory by its distinctive number followed by –
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> > > > (a) the answer to that interrogatory; or
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> > > > (b) the objection to answering it with a concise statement of the reasons for the objection.
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> > (2) [*\[Rule 409 Subrule (2) amended by S.R. 2011, No. 39, Applied:08 Jun 2011\]*](/view/html/inforce/2011-06-08/sr-2011-039#GS6@Hpb@EN) A person required to answer interrogatories is to –
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> > > > (a) verify the answers and objections to interrogatories by an affidavit exhibiting a copy of the interrogatories and the answers and objections; and
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> > > > (b) file the affidavit, and serve a copy of it on the party interrogating, within 14 days after the interrogatories are delivered.
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> > (3) [*\[Rule 409 Subrule (3) omitted by S.R. 2011, No. 39, Applied:08 Jun 2011\]*](/view/html/inforce/2011-06-08/sr-2011-039#GS6@Hpc@EN) . . . . . . . .
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> > (4) [*\[Rule 409 Subrule (4) omitted by S.R. 2011, No. 39, Applied:08 Jun 2011\]*](/view/html/inforce/2011-06-08/sr-2011-039#GS6@Hpc@EN) . . . . . . . .
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> > (5) In an action against or by the Sheriff or a similar officer in respect of any matter connected with the execution of that person's office, the affidavit verifying answers to interrogatories is to be made by the officer actually concerned.