Date:

11/17/2003

Supreme Court Rules (Amendment No 382) 2003

under the Supreme Court Act 1970

The Supreme Court Rule Committee made the following rules of court under the
Supreme Court Act 1970 on 17 November 2003.



Steven Jupp
Secretary of the Rule Committee

Explanatory note
The object of these Rules is to enable the procedures under Part 32A (Dismissal of
inactive proceedings in a division) of the Supreme Court Rules 1970 to be invoked after
a period of 5 months inactivity in proceedings instead of 1 year as is currently required.

1 Name of Rules
These Rules are the Supreme Court Rules (Amendment No 382) 2003.

2 Amendment of Supreme Court Rules 1970
The Supreme Court Rules 1970 are amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Part 32A, rule 2 (1)
Omit “1 year”. Insert instead “5 months”.