Victorian Consolidated Regulations

SUPREME COURT (GENERAL CIVIL PROCEDURE) RULES 2005 - SECT 6.09.

Acceptance of service by solicitor

6.09. Acceptance of service by solicitor



(1) This Rule applies to service of a document whether or not required to be
served personally.

(2) If a solicitor makes a note on a copy of a document that service of the
document is accepted on behalf of a person, the document shall, unless the
solicitor is shown not to have had authority to accept service, be taken to
have been served on the person on the day the solicitor made the note.

(3) Paragraph (2) does not limit other service of the document on the person
or proof of such service.