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Marginal note:Registration

46 These Rules come into force on the day on which they are registered.

Marginal note:Liberal interpretation

2 These Rules must be liberally interpreted, with the aim of ensuring that the proceedings are conducted informally and expeditiously and that the rights of the parties set out in subsection 21.6(1) of the Act are respected.

Marginal note:Application

• 45 (1) Subject to subrules (2) to (4) and except for Rules 5, 6 and 21, these Rules apply to the proceedings in respect of an application that is made to the Tribunal by the Commissioner under subsection 20.4(1) of the Act before the day on which these Rules come into force.

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• Marginal note:Tribunal directions

  (3) If the Tribunal provides a party or interested person with directions regarding any matter of procedure that is governed by these Rules before the day on which these Rules come into force, they must continue to act in accordance with those directions and the Rules that would otherwise govern the matter do not apply.

• (4) If a Rule contains a time limit that requires the doing of a thing within a prescribed number of days before the day on which the hearing begins, the time limit does not apply if

  • (a) before the day on which these Rules come into force, the Tribunal provides the parties with directions regarding the time for the doing of the thing; or

  • (b) on the day on which these Rules come into force, there are no more than the prescribed number of days remaining before the day on which the hearing begins.

Marginal note:Definitions

1 The following definitions apply in these Rules.

interested person

interested person  means a person that is added to the proceedings in accordance with these Rules. (intervenant)

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Marginal note:Service before filing

• 7 (1) A document that is required to be filed under these Rules may be filed only if a copy of that document has been served on each party and each interested person.