[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 9]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

[CITE: 46CFR502.204]

[Page 58]
 
                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
                 CHAPTER IV--FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION
 
PART 502_RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE--Table of Contents
 
      Subpart L_Depositions, Written Interrogatories, and Discovery
 
Sec.  502.204  Depositions upon written interrogatories.

    (a) Serving interrogatories; notice. A party desiring to take the 
deposition of any person upon written interrogatories shall serve them 
upon every other party pursuant to subpart H of this part with a notice 
stating the name and address of the person who is to answer them and the 
name or descriptive title and address of the officer before whom the 
deposition is to be taken. Within ten (10) days thereafter, a party so 
served may serve cross interrogatories upon the party proposing to take 
the deposition. All errors and irregularities in the notice are waived 
unless written objection is promptly served upon the party giving the 
notice.
    (b) Officer to take responses and prepare record. A copy of the 
notice and copies of all interrogatories served shall be delivered by 
the party taking the deposition to the officer designated in the notice, 
who shall proceed promptly in the manner provided by paragraphs (b), (d) 
and (e) of Sec.  502.203 to take the testimony of the witness in 
response to the interrogatories and to prepare, certify, and file or 
mail the deposition, attaching thereto the copy of the notice and the 
interrogatories received by him or her.
    (c) Notice of filing. When the deposition is filed, the party taking 
it shall promptly give notice thereof to all other parties. [Rule 204.]