Queensland Consolidated Regulations

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 1999 - REG 385

385 Pleading to amendment

(1) If a party amends a pleading, another party may plead to the amended pleading or amend the opposite party’s own pleading.

(2) The pleading or amendment must be served within the time the opposite party then has to plead, or within 8 days after the day of being served with the amendment, whichever is the later.

(3) If an opposite party has pleaded before being served with an amendment to a pleading and does not plead again within the time specified in subrule (2) , the opposite party is taken to rely on the original pleading as an answer to the amended pleading.