Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

FEDERAL CIRCUIT AND FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA (FAMILY LAW) RULES 2021 - RULE 8.02

  (1)   If a party who is served with a Notice to Admit seeks to dispute a fact or document specified in the Notice, the party must serve on the party who served the Notice, within 14 days after it was served, a Notice Disputing the Fact or Document.

  (2)   If a party does not serve a Notice Disputing the Fact or Document in accordance with subrule (1), the party is taken to admit, for the purposes of the proceeding only, that the fact is true or the document is genuine.

  (3)   If:

  (a)   a party serves a Notice Disputing a Fact or Document; and

  (b)   the fact or the genuineness of the document is later proved in the proceeding;

the party who served the Notice may be ordered to pay the costs of the proof.