These rules may be cited as the District Court Rules 1973.
These rules shall commence on the commencement of the Act.
(Repealed)
In these rules, unless the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires:
In these rules, words and expressions that are defined in the Civil Procedure Act 2005 or the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 have the same meanings as they have in that Act and those rules.
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Notes in the text of these rules do not form part of these rules.
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The registrar is to seal or stamp the following documents (or cause the documents to be sealed or stamped) with the seal of the Court:
(a) any order, notice, warrant, certificate, judgment or process made, given or issued by the registrar (or any copy of such a document),
(b) any other document issued by the registrar that is required by the rules to be sealed.
Without limiting subrule (1), a document may be stamped with the seal of the Court by any of the following means:
(a) affixing the seal on the document by means of a rubber stamp,
(b) affixing an adhesive label on the document with a representation of the seal printed on it,
(c) printing a representation of the seal on the document by electronic or mechanical means.
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The registrar for a proclaimed place shall, one month before the day appointed for the commencement of a sitting of the Court at that proclaimed place, or such lesser time before that day as the circumstances permit, affix in some conspicuous place in his office a notice of the day and hour so appointed, and whenever any such day or hour is altered shall immediately affix notice of the alteration in the same place.
The Chief Judge shall appoint in each year periods to be called vacation, and one of those periods shall be called summer vacation.
During vacation the Court shall sit on such days only, and for the hearing of proceedings of such types only, as the Chief Judge shall direct.
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The registry for each proclaimed place shall be under the control and direction of the registrar for the place, subject to any direction by the Chief Judge or a Judge.
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Except on Saturdays, Sundays and other holidays, and whether in vacation or not:
(a) the registry for Sydney shall be open to the public for business between 9.30 in the morning and 4.00 in the afternoon, and
(b) the registry for any other proclaimed place shall be open to the public for business between 9.30 in the morning and 1.00…