GCO 1982-4

October 1, 1982

AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES OF
CIVIL PROCEDURE

     1.  Rules 1, 4, 5 and 6 of the Rules of Civil Procedure of the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia shall be amended as set forth on the attached pages, effective November 1, 1982, and shall govern all civil proceedings then pending.

     2.  The principal purposes of these amendments are to place upon the litigants, rather than the Court or law enforcement officers, primary responsibility for service of process and to conform to similar amendments recently made in Rules of Civil Procedure for the United States Federal District Courts.

     3.  All comments and suggestions concerning these amendments will be welcome and taken into consideration.

Note: The amendments referred to in GCO 1982-4 are not set out here by are now incorporated in the Rules of Civil Procedure.

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