Federal Court News - Replacement of Approved Form 21 and Practice Note CM 17

14/10/2013

On 9 October 2013 the Chief Justice of the Federal Court revoked Approved Form 21 – Opt Out Notice approved for the purposes of the Federal Court Rules 2011. At the same time he approved a revised version of this form. The amendment to the form inserts an address to which the completed form should be sent.

Approved Form 21 is reproduced as the last page in Schedule A to Practice Note CM 17 “Representative Proceedings commenced under part IVA of the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth)”. Consequential on the replacement of Approved Form 21 and, with effect from the same date, Practice Note CM 17 was also revised. There are two changes. Firstly the revised Approved Form 21 replaced the old form in Schedule A. Second, an explanatory paragraph is inserted into the Introduction of the practice note as a new para 1.1. The existing paragraphs in the Introduction are renumbered as paras 1.2 and 1.3 respectively.

View the new Approved Form 21 and the revised Practice Note CM 17

14 October 2013