Magistrates' Court General Civil Procedure Rules 2020

Subject to this Part and to any transitional or other provision in these Rules to the contrary, these Rules apply to every civil proceeding commenced in the Court, whether before, on or after the commencement date.

These Rules do not apply to a civil proceeding to which the following Rules of the Magistrates' Court apply except as those Rules provide—

the Magistrates' Court (Family Violence Protection) Rules 2018^[1];

the Magistrates' Court (Occupational Health and Safety) Rules 2015^[2];

the Magistrates' Court (Outworkers) Rules 2016^[3];

the Magistrates' Court (Personal Safety Intervention Orders) Rules 2011^[4];

the Magistrates' Court Authentication Rules 2011^[5].

The revocation of the former Rules does not affect anything done or omitted to be done in a pending proceeding and, except as provided in these Rules, anything so done or omitted to be done is taken to have been done or omitted to be done under these Rules.