Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00519:schedule:1:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00519
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 1 (pt 3/6)
Character Range: 589846–592543

the person's principal place of business.
direction means an order of the Court.
directions hearing means the first date, and any other date appointed by the Court for the management and conduct of a proceeding.
document includes:
 (a) any record of information mentioned in the definition of document in Part 1 of the Dictionary to the Evidence Act 1995; and
 (b) any other material, data or information stored or recorded by mechanical or electronic means.
electronic communication means a communication of information in the form of data, text or images by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic energy, including an email or an attachment to an email.
email address means an address to or from which an electronic communication may be sent, or at which an electronic communication may be received, using the internet, an intranet or other similar electronic network.
examination includes:
 (a) an examination held under an order made under Division 29.2; and
 (b) in proceedings under Division 1 of Part 2 of the Foreign Evidence Act 1994—any proceeding for the taking of evidence of a person conducted by the judicial authorities of a foreign country in relation to a letter of request issued as a result of an order made by the Court under that Part.
examiner includes a Registrar of the Court, or any other person, appointed for the purpose of an examination of a person under:
 (a) these Rules; or
 (b) section 7(1)(a) or (b) of the Foreign Evidence Act 1994.
expert means a person who has specialised knowledge based on the person's training, study or experience.
expert evidence means the evidence of an expert that is based wholly or substantially on the expert's specialised knowledge.
Note: For the admissibility of the evidence of the opinion of an expert, see section 79 of the Evidence Act.
expert report means a written report that contains the opinion of any expert on any question in issue in the proceeding based wholly or substantially on that expert's specialised knowledge, including any report in which an expert comments on the report of any other expert.
file means file and serve.
genuine steps statement—see section 5 of the Civil Dispute Resolution Act.
guardian, of a mentally disabled person or the estate of a mentally disabled person, includes a person entrusted under a law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory, with the care or management of the person or the estate.
Hague Convention means the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters, done at The Hague on 15 November 1965.
Note: The Convention is in Australian Treaty Series 2010 No. 23 ([2010] ATS 23) and could in 2022 be viewed