During the life of a case the court will give a variety of directions to keep the case progressing towards a final decision. Some of these issues will be dealt with by a judge, but many issues can be dealt with by the court registrar.
The legislature occasionally skips outline levels.
For example:
(3) A person may apply [...]
(4)(a) A person petitioning for relief [...]
In this example, (3), (4),
and (4)(a) are all outline levels, but
(4) was
omitted by its authors. It's only implied. This presents an
interesting challenge when laying out the text. We've
decided to display a blank section with this note, in order
to aide readability.