Federal Court Amendment Rules 1999 (No. 2)
Statutory Rules 1999 No. 70
We, Judges of the Federal Court of Australia, make the following rules of court under the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976.
Dated 22 April 1999.
M.E.J. BLACK C.J.
J.F. GALLOP J.
B.A. BEAUMONT J.
M.R. WILCOX J.
J.E.J. SPENDER J.
J.C.S. BURCHETT J.
J.A. MILES J.
D.M. RYAN J.
R.S. FRENCH J.
M.R. EINFELD J.
J.W. von DOUSSA J.
D.G. HILL J.
M.F. O’LOUGHLIN J.
D.F. O’CONNOR J.
T.J. HIGGINS J.
P.C. HEEREY J.
D.P. DRUMMOND J.
R.E. COOPER J.
A.P. WHITLAM J.
M.F. MOORE J.
C.M. BRANSON J.
J.H. MATHEWS J.
K.E. LINDGREN J.
B.J.M. TAMBERLIN J.
R. SACKVILLE J.
S.M. KIEFEL J.
R.D. NICHOLSON J.
P.D. FINN J.
R.A. SUNDBERG J.
S.R. MARSHALL J.
J.R.F. LEHANE J.
A.M. NORTH J.
R.N. MADGWICK J.
R. MERKEL J.
J.R. MANSFIELD J.
A.H. GOLDBERG J.
A.R. EMMETT J.
R.A. FINKELSTEIN J.
M.S. WEINBERG J.
J.A. DOWSETT J.
L.S. KATZ J.
P.G. HELY J.
S.C. KENNY J.

Judges of the Federal
Court of Australia
W.G. SODEN
Registrar

Federal Court Amendment Rules 1999 (No. 2)1
Statutory Rules 1999 No. 702
made under the
Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

Contents
	Page
	1	Name of rules	
	2	Commencement	
	3	Amendment	
Schedule 1	Amendment of the Federal Court Rules	

1	Name of rules
		These rules are the Federal Court Amendment Rules 1999 (No. 2).
2	Commencement
		These rules commence on gazettal. 
3	Amendment
		The Federal Court Rules are amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1	Amendment of the Federal Court Rules 
[1]	Order 78, subrule 7 (3)
	substitute
	(3)	The Court may give the directions and make the orders it considers appropriate, including (but without limiting the generality of this power) an order that claimant applications be combined.  
Notes
1.	These rules amend Statutory Rules 1979 No. 140, as amended by 1980 No. 87; 1982 Nos. 217 and 408; 1983 No. 264; 1984 Nos. 9 and 258; 1985 Nos. 16, 97, 168 and 227; 1986 Nos. 61, 157 and 324; 1987 Nos. 73, 174 and 197; 1988 Nos. 14, 54, 144, 217 and 306; 1989 Nos. 50, 253 and 318; 1990 Nos. 72, 102, 276, 319, 414 and 453; 1991 Nos. 70, 249, 395 and 461; 1992 Nos. 43, 44, 86, 87, 186, 330, 421 and 453; 1993 No. 40, 45, 137. 225 and 290; 1994 Nos. 63, 130, 224, 279, 332 and 463; 1995 Nos. 31, 46, 239 and 449; 1996 Nos. 29 and 308; 1997 Nos. 82, 87, 143, 174, 204, 277 and 425; 1998 Nos. 224, 297 and 323; 1999 No. 15.
2.	Made by a majority of Judges of the Federal Court of Australia on
22 April 1999, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 May 1999.