STATUTORY RULES.
1931. No. 105.
HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.
Rule of Court.
As of Tuesday the eleventh day of August, a.d. 1931.
IT is ordered as follows:—
That Part I. of the Rules of this Court be amended as hereinafter appearing, that is to say:—
I. Order LVI.—Rule 5 is repealed, and the following rule inserted in its stead:—
“5. The several offices of the Court shall be open on every day in the year except Saturdays and Sundays and Court holidays, and shall be open from nine o’clock in the forenoon until four o’clock in the afternoon, except in the vacations, when they shall be open from nine o’clock in the forenoon until one o’clock in the afternoon. Provided that when the time for doing any act or taking any proceeding or filing any document in or at the offices of the Court expires on a Saturday and by reason thereof the act or proceeding cannot be done or taken on that day, the act or proceeding shall, so far as regards the time of doing or taking it, be held to be duly done or taken if done or taken on the next day on which the offices of the Court are open.”
FRANK GAVAN DUFFY, C.J.
G. E. RICH, J.
H. E. STARKE, J.
OWEN DIXON, J.
H. V. EVATT, J.
EDWARD A. McTIERNAN, J.
(l.s.)
Seaforth Mackenzie,
Principal Registrar.
By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.
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