Victorian Numbered Regulations Victorian Numbered Regulations(1) A document filed in RedCrest is taken to be filed in the Court.
(2) A document filed or sought to be filed in RedCrest shall be in accordance with—
(a) the Forms provided for in this Order; or
(b) if no provision is made in this Order, in accordance with the Rules other than this Order.
(3) Subject to paragraphs (6) and (7), the Court file for a proceeding to which this Order applies consists of the documents filed electronically in RedCrest in the case page.
(4) A document in a proceeding is filed in RedCrest by uploading the document into RedCrest.
(5) A document is uploaded into RedCrest when it can be viewed in the case page.
(6) The Court may order or the Prothonotary may direct, in relation to any or all documents in a proceeding or part of a proceeding, that the requirements of Rule 28A.03 be dispensed with.
(7) If an order is made or a direction is given under paragraph (6), then, unless the order or direction otherwise provides—
(a) any documents to which the order or direction relates may be filed in accordance with either Part 1 or Part 2 of Order 28; and
(b) the Court file shall include those documents as well as any documents filed electronically in the case page.
(8) If a document cannot be filed in RedCrest in a proceeding because of an impediment affecting RedCrest itself or affecting general access to RedCrest—
(a) the document may, while the impediment continues, be filed by being lodged with the Prothonotary—
(i) in paper form; or
(ii) in such other form or manner as the Prothonotary may allow; and
(b) the Prothonotary shall upload the document into RedCrest when it becomes possible to do so.
(9) If at a particular time access to documents previously filed in RedCrest in a proceeding cannot be obtained electronically by the Court or by a party because of an impediment affecting RedCrest itself or affecting general access to RedCrest—
(a) the Court may direct the parties to lodge with the Prothonotary paper copies or copies in another form of some or all of the documents previously filed in RedCrest in the proceeding; and
(b) the Court may order that, for the purposes of Rule 28.05 or for any other purposes, the copies be treated, for so long as may be required, as though they had been filed as the documents to which they respectively correspond.