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What period applies to district court inspection appointment?

Inspection within 7 specified-day-excluded days after list service. Give notice with the list and offer the stated inspection appointment. Inspection includes taking copies and excludes documents objected to produce.

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Period: Inspection within 7 specified-day-excluded days after list service
Trigger: Actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice
Rule: Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

Official verified English consolidated chapter 336H, version March 28,2025. Acquired October 9, 2026, with the official current register and immutable verified PDF. Current verified official English consolidated chapter PDFs acquired October 9, 2026. Version dates retained per chapter register. No claim that a calendar proves future gale, black-rainstorm or emergency office closures.

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Party serving a District Court discovery list. Give notice with the list and offer the stated inspection appointment.

Use the main date field for Actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice. Inspection within 7 specified-day-excluded days after list service.

District Court procedure does not inherit the High Court pleading summer omission.

The compiled public holiday calendar covers 2026 and 2027. Actual gale, black-rainstorm and other Court-office closures remain separate facts.

This calculation assumes:

The actual actor, operative event, complete relevant history and completion route are established.
No different operative Court order, permitted agreement or statutory period changes this ordinary branch.
Actual list service
Notice served with list
Nonobjected documents
Stated inspection place

Was the Court office closed on any day in this period? (optional)

Actual gale or black-rainstorm dates

Actual other Court-office closure dates

The seven days applies to offered inspection, not a later deadline to serve notice.

Actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice

Party serving a District Court discovery list. Actual list service; Notice served with list; Nonobjected documents; Stated inspection place. The seven days applies to offered inspection, not a later deadline to serve notice.

Entry rules and timing exceptions

7 days from Service of the list of documents

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9Binding

Rule notes

Being a 7-day period, RDC O. 3, r. 2(5) excludes specified days. Corrected on verification: Citation, trigger and length are right - I fetched RDC O.24 r.9 on eLegislation and it reads as encoded. The countType is wrong for the same reason as the O.59 r.4(4)(a) entry: this is a period of 7 days, and RDC O.3 r.2(5) (which I fetched) excludes every specified day from any period o

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What period applies to district court inspection appointment?

Responsible actor. Party serving a District Court discovery list.

Actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice

Inspection within 7 specified-day-excluded days after list service

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

How does this provision count time?

Give notice with the list and offer the stated inspection appointment
Party serving a District Court discovery list uses the established actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice. Inspection within 7 specified-day-excluded days after list service. Exclude the effective event day. Order3 rule2(5)–(6) omits the specified Saturdays, general holidays, gale-warning days and black-rainstorm-warning days. Actual other Court-office closure matters where the act is required there. District Court Order3 has no High Court pleading summer-omission rule. Do not transfer the August omission merely because the procedures have similar names.
Give notice with the list and offer the stated inspection appointment. An office calendar does not automatically change this service, deemed-event, minimum-interval or status boundary. The source and the actual completion route control. Inspection includes taking copies and excludes documents objected to produce.
Inspection includes taking copies and excludes documents objected to produce.

Party serving a District Court discovery list uses the established actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice. Inspection within 7 specified-day-excluded days after list service. Exclude the effective event day. Order3 rule2(5)–(6) omits the specified Saturdays, general holidays, gale-warning days and black-rainstorm-warning days. Actual other Court-office closure matters where the act is required there. District Court Order3 has no High Court pleading summer-omission rule. Do not transfer the August omission merely because the procedures have similar names.

Give notice with the list and offer the stated inspection appointment. An office calendar does not automatically change this service, deemed-event, minimum-interval or status boundary. The source and the actual completion route control. Inspection includes taking copies and excludes documents objected to produce.

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

What do independently checked examples show?

Fictitious example

Party serving a District Court discovery list. Actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice occurs on Friday, October 9, 2026. The retained eligibility and ordinary procedural conditions apply.

Example counting steps
Step	What is counted	Date
Example 1. Ordinary established facts	Party serving a District Court discovery list. Actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice occurs on Friday, October 9, 2026. The retained eligibility and ordinary procedural conditions apply. Inspection within 7 specified-day-excluded days after list service. Inspection includes taking copies and excludes documents objected to produce.	Wednesday, October 21, 2026
Example 2. Closed-day boundary	Party serving a District Court discovery list. Actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice occurs on Thursday, October 15, 2026. The retained eligibility and ordinary procedural conditions apply. Inspection within 7 specified-day-excluded days after list service. Inspection includes taking copies and excludes documents objected to produce.	Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Example 3. Material procedural branch	Party serving a District Court discovery list. Actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice occurs on Friday, October 9, 2026. The complete eligibility and procedural facts are not established. This actual branch must be established independently before any ordinary endpoint can be used. Actual list service	The seven days applies to offered inspection, not a later deadline to serve notice.

Example resultWednesday, October 21, 2026

Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish eligibility, effective service, relief or a direction.

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Which conditions and exceptions apply?

Actual list service: Actual list service
Notice served with list: Notice served with list
Nonobjected documents: Nonobjected documents
Stated inspection place: Stated inspection place
Correct source counting and completion route: Party serving a District Court discovery list uses the established actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice. Inspection within 7 specified-day-excluded days after list service. Exclude the effective event day. Order3 rule2(5)–(6) omits the specified Saturdays, general holidays, gale-warning days and black-rainstorm-warning days. Actual other Court-office closure matters where the act is required there. District Court Order3 has no High Court pleading summer-omission rule. Do not transfer the August omission merely because the procedures have similar names. Give notice with the list and offer the stated inspection appointment. An office calendar does not automatically change this service, deemed-event, minimum-interval or status boundary. The source and the actual completion route control. Inspection includes taking copies and excludes documents objected to produce.

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

Party serving a District Court discovery list. Actual list service; Notice served with list; Nonobjected documents; Stated inspection place. The seven days applies to offered inspection, not a later deadline to serve notice.
The seven days applies to offered inspection, not a later deadline to serve notice.

What must the responsible actor complete?

Actual list service
Notice served with list
Nonobjected documents
Stated inspection place
Actual list service with contemporaneous inspection notice
Give notice with the list and offer the stated inspection appointment
The seven days applies to offered inspection, not a later deadline to serve notice. Inspection includes taking copies and excludes documents objected to produce. A Court extension, abridgment or permitted written agreement under the applicable Order3 rule5 must be retained. It does not silently replace the source event.

Questions about this procedure

What period applies to district court inspection appointment?

Can the District Court inspection notice follow the list days later?

No. Order 24 rule 9 requires it when the list is served.

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

What must the notice state?

An inspection time within the specified interval and the inspection place.

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

Are document copies part of access?

Yes. Rule 9 requires allowing the other party to inspect and take copies.

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

Must every objected document be produced?

The rule expressly excepts documents the party objects to produce.

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

Does the ordinary seven-day short-period rule apply?

Yes. Cap. 336H Order 3 rule 2(5) excludes specified days from a seven-day period.

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

Does this date establish that inspection actually happened?

No. It limits the offered appointment and does not prove performance.

Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9

Official sources and review

Provisions used (4)

Provisions used in this guide
Provision	Purpose
Rules of the District Court (Cap. 336H), Order 24, rule 9	Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
Rules of the District Court (Cap.336H), Order3 rules1,2,4 and5	Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap.1), section71(1)–(2)	Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
General Holidays Ordinance (Cap.149), section3 and Schedule	Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification

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1What period applies to district court inspection appointment?

2How does this provision count time?

3What do independently checked examples show?

4Which conditions and exceptions apply?

5What must the responsible actor complete?

6Questions about this procedure

What period applies to district court inspection appointment?

Can the District Court inspection notice follow the list days later?

What must the notice state?

Are document copies part of access?

Must every objected document be produced?

Does the ordinary seven-day short-period rule apply?

Does this date establish that inspection actually happened?

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What period applies to district court inspection appointment?

How does this provision count time?

What do independently checked examples show?

Which conditions and exceptions apply?

What must the responsible actor complete?

Questions about this procedure

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