When is the deadline for defence after service outside australia?
The catalogue records a 30 working-days period from The date of service of the originating process outside Australia. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- "Except when the Court otherwise orders"; r 12.1(2)(c).
- "business day" is defined in UCR r 2.1 as "a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday". Schedule 1 Part 1 contains harmonised service-overseas rules and does not apply to service in New Zealand covered by the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 (Cth) (sch 1 cl 1). Default judgment against a person served outside Australia is further restricted by sch 1 cll 25 and 26.