South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts46—Service of applications on parties
(1) The following
persons are parties to an application under this Act for an investigation and
assessment order or a care and protection order, or for the variation,
extension or revocation of such an order, or to an application by the
Chief Executive under Part 8 for the transfer of a child protection order or a
child protection proceeding:
(a) the
applicant; and
(b) the
child the subject of the application; and
(c) each
guardian of the child.
(2) A copy of an
application must be served—
(a) on
the child the subject of the application, if the child is of or above the age
of 10 years; and
(b)
subject to this section, on each other party to the application; and
(c) if
the application is to transfer a child protection order or a child
protection proceeding under Part 8, on any person to whom access to the child
has been granted.
(3) The application
must be served personally, but—
(a) if
it is not practicable to serve the application personally on a party (not
being the child); or
(b) if
the whereabouts of such a party cannot, after reasonable enquiries, been
ascertained,
the application may be served on that person by post addressed to the person
at his or her last known place of residence or employment or in any other
manner authorised by the Court.
(4) A copy of an
application for service must be endorsed with a notification of the place,
date and time for the hearing of the application.
(5) Subject to this
section, the Court must not proceed to hear an application unless each party
served with the application has had at least the following period of notice of
the hearing:
(a) in
the case of an application for an investigation and assessment
order—three working days;
(b) in
any other case—five working days.
(6) The Court may, for
any proper reason, dispense with service under this section, or reduce the
period between service and the time for the hearing of the application.