{"id":"C1931L00105","name":"High Court of Australia - Rules of Court","slug":"c1931l00105","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"105 of 1931","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":380336,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1931L00105-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-09","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"High Court of Australia - Rules of Court","content":"STATUTORY RULES.\n\n1931\\. No. 105.\n\nHIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.\n\nRule of Court.\n\nAs of Tuesday the eleventh day of August, a.d. 1931.\n\nIT is ordered as follows:—\n\nThat Part I. of the Rules of this Court be amended as hereinafter appearing, that is to say:—\n\nI. Order LVI.—Rule 5 is repealed, and the following rule inserted in its stead:—\n\n“5. The several offices of the Court shall be open on every day in the year except Saturdays and Sundays and Court holidays, and shall be open from nine o’clock in the forenoon until four o’clock in the afternoon, except in the vacations, when they shall be open from nine o’clock in the forenoon until one o’clock in the afternoon. Provided that when the time for doing any act or taking any proceeding or filing any document in or at the offices of the Court expires on a Saturday and by reason thereof the act or proceeding cannot be done or taken on that day, the act or proceeding shall, so far as regards the time of doing or taking it, be held to be duly done or taken if done or taken on the next day on which the offices of the Court are open.”\n\nFRANK GAVAN DUFFY, C.J.\n\nG. E. RICH, J.\n\nH. E. STARKE, J.\n\nOWEN DIXON, J.\n\nH. V. EVATT, J.\n\nEDWARD A. McTIERNAN, J.\n\n(l.s.)\n\nSeaforth Mackenzie,\n\nPrincipal Registrar.\n\nBy Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.\n\n2542.—Price 3d.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1688},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This amendment remains strictly within the administrative and procedural scope of the High Court Rules. It updates practical operational details (office hours) and adds a standard procedural safeguard for filing deadlines without expanding into new jurisdictional or substantive legal areas."},"complexity_factors":["Single rule amendment (Order LVI, Rule 5 only)","No cross-references to other legislation or defined terms","Simple conditional logic (single 'if-then' scenario for Saturday deadlines)","Straightforward temporal provisions (office hours, vacation periods)"],"plain_english_summary":"This rule sets the High Court's office hours (Mon–Fri 9am–4pm, or 9am–1pm in court vacations) and confirms offices are closed weekends and public holidays. \n\nIt also treats filings due on a Saturday as if made on the next business day, protecting lawyers, litigants and self‑represented parties from losing time simply because the Court was closed."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/c1931l00105","history":"/api/acts/c1931l00105/history","analysis":"/api/acts/c1931l00105/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/c1931l00105/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/c1931l00105/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/c1931l00105/documents"}}