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to give directions
  The Court may give directions in relation to the practice and procedure to be followed in a proceeding if it is satisfied, in the circumstances of the proceeding, that:
 (a) the provisions of the Corporations Act, the ASIC Act, or the rules of this Court do not adequately provide for the practice and procedure to be followed in the proceeding; or
 (b) a difficulty arises, or doubt exists, in relation to the practice and procedure to be followed in the proceeding.

1.9  Calculation of time
 (1) If, for any purpose, these Rules:
 (a) prohibit, permit or require an act or thing to be done within, by, or before the end of; or
 (b) otherwise prescribe, allow or provide for;
a period of time before or after a particular day, act or event, the period is to be calculated without counting that day, or the day of the act or event, as the case may be.
 (2) Without limiting subrule (1), in calculating how many days a particular day, act or event is before or after another day, act or event, only the first day, or the day of the first act or event, is to be counted.
 (3) If the last day of any period prescribed or allowed by these Rules for an act or thing to be done falls on a day that is not a business day in the place where the act or thing is to be or may be done, the act or thing may be done on the first business day in the place after that day.
 (4) In calculating a period of time for the purposes of these Rules, the period beginning on 25 December in a year and ending at the end of 1 January in the next year is not to be counted.

1.10  Extension and abridgment of time
  Unless the Corporations Act, the ASIC Act, or these Rules otherwise provide, the rules of this Court that provide for the extension or abridgment of a period of time fixed for the doing of any act or thing in relation to a proceeding apply to a proceeding to which these Rules apply.

Division 2—Proceedings generally

2.1  Title of documents in a proceeding—Form 1
  The title of a document filed in a proceeding must be in accordance with Form 1.

2.2  Originating process and interlocutory process—Forms 2 and 3
 (1) Unless these Rules otherwise provide, a person must make an application required or permitted by the Corporations Act to be made to the Court:
 (a) if the application is not made in a proceeding already commenced in the Court—by filing an originating process; and
 (b) in any other case, and whether