UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 1999 - REG 112
How ordinary service is performed
UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 1999 - REG 112
How ordinary service is performed
112 How ordinary service is performed
(1) If these rules do not require personal service of a document, the
following are ways by which the document may be served on the person to be
served—
(a) leaving it with someone who is apparently an adult living at the
relevant address;
(b) if there is no-one at the relevant address—leaving it
at the relevant address in a position where it is reasonably likely to come to
the person’s attention;
(c) if the relevant address is within a building or
area to which the person serving the document has been denied access—leaving
it at the building or area in a position where it is reasonably likely to come
to the person’s attention;
(i) a fax number under these rules—faxing the
document to the person; or
(ii) an email address under these rules—emailing
the document to the person;
(f) if the solicitor for the person has—
(i) an
exchange box at a document exchange—leaving the document in the exchange box
or another exchange box available for documents to be transferred to the
solicitor’s exchange box; or
(ii) a fax—faxing the document to the
solicitor; or
(iii) an email address—emailing the document to the
solicitor;
(g) an electronic means prescribed by practice direction.
(2) A
document served under subrule (1) (f) (i) is taken to have been served on the
business day after it is left in the document exchange box.
(3) In this
rule—
"relevant address" , of a person to be served, means—