(1) The court's registry, through the Electronic Litigation Portal, shall accept all documents submitted for electronic filing.
(2) Where a document has been filed using the Electronic Litigation Portal —
(a) an automated notification is generated in the notification section of the Electronic Litigation Portal, and will be available to all the legal practitioners on the matter, other than the filing legal practitioner, once the other legal practitioners have logged into the system; and
(b) the notification under paragraph (a) will be sent by electronic mail to the electronic mail address of the other legal practitioners to the proceedings who are registered on the Electronic Litigation Portal.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraphs (2)(a) and (b), where a document is filed ex parte, an automated notification will not be sent to the parties in the notification section of the Electronic Litigation Portal or by electronic mail.
(4) A filed document must be stamped and dated and by electronic means linked to the associated proceedings by the Electronic Litigation Portal.
(5) The court's stamp and date of filing information once applied to an electronically filed document by the Electronic Litigation Portal validates the authenticity of the document as being filed in the court's registry.
(6) On payment of the fees using the payment facility provided by the Electronic Litigation Portal, a paid stamp denoting payment must be applied to the document and the electronic filing fees paid under rule 5A.9 must be printed on the document.
(7) A document shall be deemed to be properly filed only when the requisite filing fees have been paid as required by rule 5A.9 unless payment is exempted by these rules or an enactment.