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Family Procedure Rules

Updates

Notes to Accompany 6th Update

HTML links have been removed from all the update indexes except for the latest – the date in brackets is the date of issue. Complete document sets are compressed ‘zip’ files for downloading. Programs such as ‘WinZip’ can be used to read these files, visit http://www.winzip.com for further information.

Amendment Indexes	Complete document sets
Family Procedure Rules Update 4 [30 September 2012]	HTML[146MB]	PDF[67.5MB]
Family Procedure Rules Update 2 [06 April 2012]	HTML[118MB]	PDF[67.9MB]
Family Procedure Rules Update 1 [18 June 2011]	HTML[119MB]	PDF[48.5MB]
Family Procedure Rules 2010 [06 April 2011]	HTML[70.7MB]	PDF[20.0MB]
Family Procedure (Adoption) Rules [30 December 2005]	HTML[14.8MB]	N/A

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Amendment Indexes	Complete document sets
HTML	PDF
Family Procedure Rules Update 5 [20 December 2012]	HTML[121MB]	PDF[69MB]
Family Procedure Rules Update 4 [30 September 2012]	HTML[146MB]	PDF[67.5MB]
Family Procedure Rules Update 2 [06 April 2012]	HTML[118MB]	PDF[67.9MB]
Family Procedure Rules Update 1 [18 June 2011]	HTML[119MB]	PDF[48.5MB]
Family Procedure Rules 2010 [06 April 2011]	HTML[70.7MB]	PDF[20.0MB]
Family Procedure (Adoption) Rules [30 December 2005]	HTML[14.8MB]	N/A