Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1984 No. 425 FAMILY LAW RULES - ORDER 3 RULE 1

1. (1) A period of time fixed by these Rules shall be reckoned in accordance
with this rule.

(2) Except as ordered by the court, time runs in connexion with proceedings
during a period during which a registry of the court is not open.

(3) Where a period of time of or exceeding one day in length is to be reckoned
by reference to a particular day or to the occurrence of a particular event,
that day, or the day on which that event occurs, as the case may be, shall not
be counted.

(4) Subject to Order 18, rule 3, where the last day for-

   (a)  filing a document; or

   (b)  serving or delivering a document the copy of which for service or
        delivery is required by these Rules to be, but has not been, sealed,
        is a day on which the filing registry is closed, the document may be
        filed, served or delivered, as the case requires, on the next day on
        which the filing registry is open.

(5) Where apart from this Rule, a period of time specified in a decree, being
a period of 5 days or less, would include a day on which the filing registry
is closed, that day shall be excluded from the reckoning of that period of
time.
(6) A reference in sub-rule (4) to "filing registry" shall be read, in a case
where proceedings have not yet been instituted, as a reference to the
appropriate registry of the court in which the proceedings are to be
instituted.