Queensland Consolidated Regulations

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 1999 - REG 969A

969A Electronically filing documents

(1) This rule applies to a document to be filed electronically.

(2) The following may be done by a manual or an electronic process—

(a) the recording of the date of filing on the document by the registrar;

(b) the applying of the seal of the court to the document.

(3) The registrar may refuse to file the document if the document does not comply with these rules or may not otherwise be filed.

(4) The document is taken to be filed when the registrar records the date of filing on the document and applies the seal of the court to it.

(5) If the document is accepted by the registrar, the day on which the document is taken to have been filed is—

(a) if the whole of the document is received by the registry before 4.30p.m. on a day the registry is open for business—that day; or

(b) otherwise—the next day the registry is open for business.

(6) A service provider may electronically file a document on behalf of a party to a proceeding.

(7) Any prescribed fee for electronically filing a document must be paid in accordance with the requirements of the principal registrar.

(8) The registrar may give, including electronically, a copy of the filed document to the party to the proceeding who filed the document, or on whose behalf the document was filed.