Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1979 No. 140 FEDERAL COURT RULES - RULE 3.2

2. (1) Any period of time fixed by rules or by any judgment or order or by any
document in any proceeding, shall be reckoned in accordance with this rule.

(2) Where a time of one day or a longer time is to be reckoned by reference to
a given day or event, the given day or the day of the given event shall not be
counted.

(3) Where, apart from this sub-rule, the period in question, being a period of
5 days or less, would include a day on which the Registry is closed, that day
shall be excluded.

(4) Where the last day for doing a thing is a day on which the Registry is
closed, the thing may be done on the next day on which the Registry is open.

(5) Sub-section 36 (2) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 does not apply to
these Rules.