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Statutory Rules

1978 No. 10

RULES UNDER THE JUDICIARY ACT 1903*

We, Justices of the High Court of Australia, hereby make the following Rules of Court under the Judiciary Act 1903.

Dated this seventeenth day of January 1978.

G. E. BARWICK C.J.

A. F. MASON J.

 (L.S.)

K. S. JACOBS J.

K. A. AICKIN J.

Justices of the High Court

of Australia

L. B. FOLEY

Principal Registrar

AMENDMENTS OF THE HIGH COURT RULES 

Commencement

1. These Rules shall come into operation on 1 February 1978.

Fees

2. Rule 8 of Order 72 of the High Court Rules is amended by omitting sub-rule (2).

Third Schedule

3. The High Court Rules are amended by omitting the Third Schedule and substituting the following Schedule:

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 January 1978.

  Statutory Rules 1952, No. 23 as amended by Statutory Rules 1933, Nos. 1 and 46; 1954, No. 102; 1955, Nos. 25 and 34; 1959, No. 107; 1960, Nos. 19 and 94; 1961, Nos. 19 and 89; 1968. No. 4; 1970, No. 17; 1973, Nos. 94 and 305; 1976, No. 44; and 1977, No. 41.

THIRD SCHEDULE 0.72,r.8

 FEES AND CHARGES

1. On—

$

(a) an application under rule 1 of Order 55; or

(b) commencing a proceeding by writ of summons, notice of motion, petition or notice of appeal.........................................................................................

25.00

2. On entering an appearance to a proceeding—if 2 or more persons are all represented by the same solicitor and all enter an appearance in the same document, for those persons or, in any other case, for each person..................................................

10.00

3. On issuing a summons to extend time before proceedings are commenced.......

10.00

4. On entering for hearing before a Justice or the Full Court an action, appeal, special case, written case, order nisi or application for order absolute........................

40.00

5. On entering for hearing before a Justice or the Full Court an objection to the competency of an appeal..................................................................................

15.00

6. Reasons for judgment given by a Justice or the Full Court in a proceeding—for each copy issued to a person not party to the proceeding and for each copy in excess of one copy issued to the party to the proceeding—............................................

or

Per set of reasons not exceeding 13 pages.......................................................

2.00

or

Per page of a set of reasons exceeding 13 pages but not exceeding 100 pages.

0.15

or

Per set of reasons exceeding 100 pages.............................................................

15.00

7. For a warrant to arrest a ship...............................................................................

10.00

8. For a search in a register, index, file or calendar and inspection of documents (other than a search for or inspection of documents, filed in relation to a proceeding, by or on behalf of a party to that proceeding)—

Per hour or part of an hour.................................................................................

2.00

9. For an office copy of a record of the Court or of a document filed in a Registry—

If in the English language, per page.................................................................

0.50

If in a foreign language, the actual cost of making and examining the copy and, in addition, for marking and sealing the copy as an office copy..................

5.00

10. On obtaining an appointment for taxation of a bill of costs................................

10.00

11. For taxing a bill of costs—for every 4 dollars or part of 4 dollars of the amount found due upon taxation...............................................................................................

0.30

12. On obtaining an appointment to settle the index of a transcript for use upon hearing of an appeal.............................................................................................................

20.00

13. On sealing and filing an order of a Justice or the Court in respect of which no fee is otherwise payable, not being an order relating to a matter in respect of which a fee has been paid under item 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 or an order relating to an interlocutory proceeding in relation to such a matter.................................................................................

10.00

14. For a certificate of the Registrar, other than a certificate of taxation..................

10.00

15. In the offices of the Marshal or Deputy Marshal—the same fees as are required to be taken by the Sheriff, in respect of a like proceeding in an action in a case pending in a Supreme Court of a State or Territory in which the proceeding is taken or the act is done or authorized, by the practice of that Supreme Court...............................

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