Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations(1AA) For the purposes of documents filed
electronically, this rule applies with any necessary changes.
(1) Each document in
an appeal book must be clearly legible.
(1A) A registrar may
order that a document which is to be included in an appeal book and which is
not clearly legible be typed or retyped, checked against the original, and
certified as correct, before it is included.
(1B) A document in an
appeal book must not be reduced in size from its original size unless a
registrar orders otherwise.
(2) Unless it is a
form in Schedule 1, each page in an appeal book must have every fifth line on
the page numbered, or letters placed beside the text at 50 mm intervals, in
the left margin.
(3) The pages in each
part of an appeal book, other than the cover page and the pages of the index,
must be numbered consecutively, even if the part comprises 2 or more volumes.
(4) Each volume of
each part of an appeal book —
(a) may
but need not have a clear plastic sheet over the cover page and on the back of
the volume; and
(b) must
start with the cover page for that part and volume; and
(c) must
contain the index for that part; and
(d) must
not comprise more than 500 pages (which is to say 250 sheets of paper); and
[(e) deleted]
(f) must
be bound so that when it is opened at a page, both sides of the volume lie
flat and open at the page.
(4A) If an appeal book
is filed under the RSC Order 67A using the ECMS, each volume of each
part of the appeal book —
(a) must
not be greater than 200 megabytes; and
(b) must
contain a colour version of a document if the original is a colour document;
and
(c) must
be in a form that allows the text to be electronically searchable.
(5) The cover page of
each volume of each part of an appeal book must —
(a) be
in the form of Form 14; and
(b) be
of durable paper of the colour required for that part.
(6) The index in each
volume of each part of an appeal book must —
(a) be
typed using one and a half line spacing or more; and
(b) if
there are 2 or more volumes in the part, indicate which pages of the part are
in which volume.
[Rule 39 amended: Gazette
22 Aug 2017 p. 4532‑3; SL 2021/34 r. 11;
SL 2022/60 r. 20; SL 2025/76 r. 11.]