409Answers to interrogatories and affidavit verifying

409 Answers to interrogatories and affidavit verifying

(1)  [Rule 409 Subrule (1) amended by S.R. 2011, No. 39, Applied:08 Jun 2011] A person required to answer interrogatories is to answer each interrogatory by a document identifying each separate interrogatory by its distinctive number followed by –

(a) the answer to that interrogatory; or

(b) the objection to answering it with a concise statement of the reasons for the objection.

(2)  [Rule 409 Subrule (2) amended by S.R. 2011, No. 39, Applied:08 Jun 2011] A person required to answer interrogatories is to –

(a) verify the answers and objections to interrogatories by an affidavit exhibiting a copy of the interrogatories and the answers and objections; and

(b) file the affidavit, and serve a copy of it on the party interrogating, within 14 days after the interrogatories are delivered.

(3)  [Rule 409 Subrule (3) omitted by S.R. 2011, No. 39, Applied:08 Jun 2011] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(4)  [Rule 409 Subrule (4) omitted by S.R. 2011, No. 39, Applied:08 Jun 2011] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(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.