SMALL CLAIMS TRIBUNAL (FILING OF ACTS BY ELECTRONIC MEANS) RULES

SMALL CLAIMS TRIBUNAL

(FILING OF ACTS BY ELECTRONIC MEANS)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 380.04

SMALL CLAIMS TRIBUNAL (FILING OF ACTS

BY ELECTRONIC MEANS) RULES

1st July, 2013 *

LEGAL NOTICE 164 of 2013.

The title of these rules is the Small Claims Tribunal (Filing

of Acts by Electronic Means) Rules.

For the purposes of these rules "by electronic means" shall

mean online.

(1) There shall be an electronic mechanism by means of

which claims, replies and, or counter-claims before the Tribunal

and, or appeals from decisions of the same Tribunal may be filed

online.

(2) Any person who wants to file a claim, reply and, or counter-

claim before the Tribunal or an appeal from a decision of the same

Tribunal may do so online by filling the requisite form and paying

the prescribed fee.

(1) The Registrar or persons delegated by him may receive

claims, replies and, or counter-claims before the Tribunal or

appeals from decisions of the same Tribunal filed by electronic

means.

(2) Claims, replies and, or counter-claims before the Tribunal

or appeals from decisions of the same Tribunal filed by electronic

means shall, for all intents and purposes of law, be deemed as if

they have been filed directly in the Registry of the same Tribunal

Provided that when a claim, reply and, or counter-claim

before the Tribunal or an appeal from a decision of the same

Tribunal is filed by electronic means outside registry opening hours

as established by the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure,

such act shall be deemed to have been filed on the first following

day of the opening of the said Registry.

*see rule 1(2) of these Rules, as originally promulgated.