Last Updated: 1 December 2016

[FAM 11,775] Proceedings to be numbered3.12 

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(1) Subject to paragraph (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 that new proceedings are closely connected with existing proceedings, the registrar may allot to the new proceedings the distinctive number already allotted to existing proceedings.