Rule 30. Procedure on production of defaced, torn or damaged documents

Chapter III · Institution of appeals — Procedure

30.1 The rule

When a document produced along with any pleading appears to be defaced, torn, or in any way damaged or otherwise its condition or appearance requires special notice, a mention regarding its condition and appearance shall be made by the party producing the same in the Index of such a pleading and the same shall be verified and initialed by the officer authorised to receive the same.

30.2 What it does

Rule 30 makes the producing party declare, on the face of the Index, that a document he is filing is damaged or otherwise looks odd — and makes the receiving officer check the declaration and initial it. The result is a contemporaneous, counter-signed record of what the document looked like on the day it entered the Tribunal.