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SUPREME COURT (GENERAL CIVIL PROCEDURE) RULES 2015 (SR NO 103 OF 2015) - REG 28.10

Prothonotary may accept a document for filing

    (1)     If satisfied that a document which is retrieved electronically in the Court from an authorised provider complies with the requirements of the Rules, the Prothonotary shall—

        (a)     accept the document;

        (b)     make a copy of the document and endorse on it the date and time it is taken to be filed; and

        (c)     in the case of a document which, if filed personally would be required to be sealed and dated by the Prothonotary, send a filing confirmation notice by electronic communication to the authorised provider.

    (2)     A filing confirmation notice shall—

        (a)     be in Form 28A; and

        (b)     contain a facsimile of the seal of the Court.

    (3)     Subject to paragraph (4), a document which is accepted by the Prothonotary is taken to have been filed in the Court on the date and at the time the authorised provider made it available for retrieval by the Prothonotary.

    (4)     Subject to Rule 28.11, if the authorised provider makes a document available for retrieval by the Prothonotary after 4.00 p.m. on a day the office of the Court is open or at any time on a day that the office of the Court is not open and the Prothonotary subsequently accepts the document for filing, the document shall be taken to have been filed at 9.30 a.m. on the next day the office of the Court is open after the date the document was made available for retrieval.



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