8Proceedings to be numbered

8 Proceedings to be numbered

(1) Subject to subrule (3), if:

(a) an application instituting proceedings; or

(b) an agreement or similar document;

is filed or registered, the Registrar must allot the proceedings, or agreement or similar document, a distinctive number.

(2) A document filed in, or issued out of, a registry in connection with particular proceedings must have the distinctive number of the proceedings endorsed on it.

(3) If the Registrar considers it desirable to allot to proceedings the distinctive number already allotted to other proceedings, the Registrar may do so.

Order 3 Time

1 Computation of time

(1) A period of time fixed by these Rules shall be reckoned in accordance with this rule.

(2) Except as ordered by the court, time runs in connexion with proceedings during a period during which a registry of the court is not open.

(3) Where a period of time of or exceeding one day in length is to be reckoned by reference to a particular day or to the occurrence of a particular event, that day, or the day on which that event occurs, as the case may be, shall not be counted.

(4) Subject to rule 5 of Order 18, if the last day for:

(a) filing a document; or

(b) serving or delivering a document the copy of which for service or delivery is required by these Rules to be, but has not been, sealed;

is a day on which the filing registry is closed, the document may be filed, served or delivered, as the case requires, on the next day on which the filing registry is open.

(5) Where apart from this Rule, a period of time specified in a decree, being a period of 5 days or less, would include a day on which the filing registry is closed, that day shall be excluded from the reckoning of that period of time.

(6) A reference in subrule (4) to filing registry shall be read, in a case where proceedings have not yet been instituted, as a reference to the appropriate registry of the court in which the proceedings are to be instituted.

2 Meaning of month

In a decree, in any document in any proceedings and in these Rules, unless the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires, month means calendar month.

3 Extension or shortening of time

The court, or a Registrar, on terms that the court or Registrar thinks fit, may extend or shorten the time fixed by:

(a) these Rules; or

(b) a decree or order;

for doing, or refraining from doing, any act or thing in relation to proceedings, even if the time fixed has passed.

Order 4 General