{"id":"C1947L00090","name":"High Court of Australia - Rules of Court","slug":"c1947l00090","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"90 of 1947","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":320521,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1947L00090-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"High Court of Australia - Rules of Court","content":"STATUTORY RULES.\n\n1947\\. No. 90.\n\nHIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA.\n\nRules of Court.\\*\n\nAs of Wednesday the eleventh day of June, 1947.\n\nPURSUANT to the Judiciary Act 1903-1946 and to all other powers thereto enabling it is ordered as follows:—\n\nThat Part II. of the Rules of this Court be amended in the manner hereinafter appearing:—\n\nRule 5 of Section III. is amended by omitting the words “if the appeal is from a judgment given or made before the commencement of the Judiciary Act 1903,”.\n\nRule 1 of Section V. is amended by inserting after the words “Original Jurisdiction” the following words “including any rules relating to the enlargement or abridgement of time for doing any act or taking any proceeding.”\n\nJ. G. LATHAM C.J.\n\nG. E. RICH J.\n\nH. E. STARKE J.\n\n(L.S.) OWEN DIXON J.\n\nEDWARD A McTIERNAN J.\n\nDUDLEY WILLIAMS J.\n\nJ. G. Hardman, Principal Registrar.\n\n\\* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th July, 1947.\n\nBy Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.\n\n4575.—Price 3d.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2567},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The amendments are strictly technical and procedural, removing an obsolete temporal limitation for pre-1903 judgments and clarifying that time-limit rules apply to original jurisdiction matters. The instrument remains focused on its stated purpose of amending Part II of the Rules."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument containing only two specific amendments","No definitions or interpretation sections","Simple textual operations (single deletion and single insertion) without conditional logic","No cross-references to other statutes or nested exceptions"],"plain_english_summary":"This statutory rule updates the **High Court of Australia's procedural rules** to remove outdated restrictions and clarify the Court's powers over deadlines.\n\nIt makes two technical changes to **Part II** of the Rules:\n\n*   **Removes an obsolete appeal restriction:** It deletes a rule that treated appeals from judgments made before the *Judiciary Act 1903* (i.e., before the High Court existed) differently. By 1947, this 44-year-old cutoff was no longer relevant to live cases.\n*   **Clarifies time-limit rules:** It makes clear that the Court's power to extend or shorten deadlines (called \"enlargement or abridgement of time\") applies to cases started in the High Court's **original jurisdiction** (cases that begin in the High Court itself), not just appeals from lower courts.\n\nThese changes ensure the Court's procedures remain practical and that rules about extending time apply consistently across all types of matters."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/c1947l00090","history":"/api/acts/c1947l00090/history","analysis":"/api/acts/c1947l00090/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/c1947l00090/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/c1947l00090/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/c1947l00090/documents"}}