Date:

06/20/2005

The Supreme Court Rule Committee made the following rules of court under the Supreme Court Act 1970 on 20 June 2005.

Steven Jupp
Secretary of the Rule Committee

Explanatory note

The object of these Rules is to amend the Supreme Court (Corporations) Rules 1999:

(a) to confirm that a cross-claim may be made by filing an interlocutory process, and
(b) to provide that any application under section 472 (2) of the Corporations Act 2001 of
the Commonwealth for the appointment of an official liquidator as a provisional
liquidator of a company must be accompanied by the written consent of the official
liquidator.


1 Name of Rules

These Rules are the Supreme Court (Corporations) Amendment (No 5)
Rules 2005.

2 Amendment of Supreme Court (Corporations) Rules 1999

The Supreme Court (Corporations) Rules 1999 are amended as set out
in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(Rule 2)

[1] Rule 2.2

Omit rule 2.2 (1) (b). Insert instead:

(b) in any other case, and whether interlocutory relief or final
relief is claimed by filing an interlocutory process.

[2] Rule 6.1

Omit rule 6.1 (1). Insert instead:

(1) An application for an official liquidator to be appointed, under
subsection 472 (2) of the Corporations Act, as a provisional
liquidator of a company must be accompanied by the written
consent of the official liquidator.