High Court Rules (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1982 No. 771

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High Court of Australia

Rule of Court Amending the High Court Rules2

(As of Wednesday the 17th day of March 1982)

PURSUANT to the Judiciary Act 1903as amended and to all other powers thereunto enabling, it is ordered that the High Court Rules, being Statutory Rules, 1952, No. 23, as amended, be further amended as follows:—

After Order 43, the following Order is inserted:—

“ORDER 43A

INTEREST ON JUDGMENTS

• 1.

  Every judgment debt under a judgment of the High Court of Australia, entered prior to the 21st of April 1980 shall carry interest at the rate of five per centum per annum from the date as of which the judgment is so entered.

• 2.

  Every judgment debt under a judgment of the High Court of Australia, entered as of the 21st of April 1980, or subsequent to that date, shall carry interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum from the date as of which the judgment is so entered.

  H. T. GIBBS

  N. M. STEPHEN

  A. F. MASON

(L.S.) L. K. MURPHY

K. A. AICKIN

R. D. WILSON

F. G. BRENNAN

Justices

FRANK JONES

Registrar

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 31 March 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1952 No. 23 as amended by 1953 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 205; 1976 No. 44; 1977 No. 41; 1978 Nos. 10 and 46; 1980 Nos. 88 and 296; 1981 No. 24.