Amendment to the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules

10/07/2009

Uniform Civil Procedure Rules (Amendment No 27) 2009 has been published on the Parliamentary Counsel's web site. The object of the rules, as provided in the explanatory note is to amend the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005:

• to give effect to uniform rules developed by the Rules Harmonisation Committee of the Council of Chief Justices with respect to service of judicial documents under the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters done at the Hague on 15 November 1965, and

• to provide that an originating process for proceedings on a claim for possession of land cannot be served in accordance with an agreement, acknowledgment or undertaking between the parties unless the agreement, acknowledgment or undertaking is made after the originating process is filed but before it is served, and

• to enable registrars nominated by the principal registrar of the Supreme Court to exercise functions under Division 9 (Court appointed referral for legal assistance) of Part 7 of the Rules in relation to the Supreme Court.

View the explanatory notes as to forms >

10 July 2009