Victorian Consolidated Regulations

COUNTY COURT CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2008 - SECT 46.05.

Service

46.05. Service



(1) The applicant shall serve a sealed copy of a summons and, except where
these Rules otherwise provide, a copy of any affidavit in support on every
person to whom notice of the application is to be given.

(2) Service under paragraph (1) shall be made within a reasonable time before
the day for hearing named in the summons, and in no case later than 2.00 p.m.
on the previous day or, where the Registrar's office was closed on the day
before the day for hearing, not later than 2.00 p.m. on the day the office was
last open.

(3) A plaintiff may serve any summons on a defendant personally before
appearance.