District Court Rules 1973 (1973-01) (NSW)

District Court Rules 1973

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of rules These rules may be cited as the District Court Rules 1973.

2 Commencement These rules shall commence on the commencement of the Act.

3 (Repealed)

4 Interpretation (1) In these rules, unless the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires: the Act means the District Court Act 1973. (2) 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. (2A), (3) (Repealed) (4) Notes in the text of these rules do not form part of these rules.

5, 5A (Repealed)

6 Seal of the Court (1) 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. (2) 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.

7, 7A (Repealed)

Part 2 Administration

1 Sittings of the Court DCR r 2. 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.