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FEDERAL MAGISTRATES ACT 1999 - SECT 46

Filing of documents in the Federal Magistrates Court
(1)
If a document is required or permitted to be filed in the Federal Magistrates Court:

(a)
the document is to be filed:

(i)
at a registry of the Federal Magistrates Court; or
(ii)
in accordance with an arrangement under section 90 or 91; and
(b)
the document is to be filed in accordance with the Rules of Court.

(2)
The Rules of Court may provide that the requirements of subsection (1) are taken to have been met in relation to a document:

(a)
if the document, or its contents, is or are given to the Federal Magistrates Court, in accordance with specified software requirements, by way of a specified kind of electronic transmission; or

(b)
in such other circumstances (if any) as are ascertained in accordance with the Rules of Court.



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