ORDER 57 : TIME

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1. The day on which an order for security for costs is made, and the time allowed for the giving of such security, shall not be reckoned in the computation of time allowed to plead or take any other proceeding in the cause or matter.

2. A Court or Judge shall have power to enlarge or abridge the time appointed by these Rules, or fixed by any order enlarging time, for doing any act or taking any proceeding, upon such terms (if any) as the justice of the case may require, and any such enlargement may be ordered although the application for the same is not made until after the expiration of the time appointed or allowed : provided that when the time for delivering any pleading or document or filing any affidavit, answer or document, or doing any act is or has been fixed or limited by any of these Rules or by any direction or order of the Court or Judge, the costs of any application to extend such time and of any order made thereon shall be borne by the party making such application unless the Court or Judge shall otherwise order.

[Δ.Κ. 29.1.1969] 3.  Summonses may be issued and pleadings may be amended, delivered, or filed during the last seven days of the period mentioned in Order 61, Rule [Κείμενο διαγράφηκε από: Δ.Κ. 29.1.1969:] 2 [Προστέθηκε από: Δ.Κ. 29.1.1969:] 1 (a), but pleadings shall not be amended, delivered or filed during any other part of that period, unless by order of the Court or a Judge to be obtained by summons.

[Δ.Κ. 29.1.1969] 4.  Save where the Court or a Judge otherwise orders, the time of the period mentioned in Order 61, Rule [Κείμενο διαγράφηκε από: Δ.Κ. 29.1.1969:] 2 [Προστέθηκε από: Δ.Κ. 29.1.1969:] 1 (a), shall not be reckoned in the computation of the times appointed or allowed by these Rules for amending, delivering, or filing any pleading, except to the extent of the last seven days of that period.