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STALKING INTERVENTION ORDERS ACT 2008 (NO. 68 OF 2008) - SECT 17 Service of application for intervention order

STALKING INTERVENTION ORDERS ACT 2008 (NO. 68 OF 2008) - SECT 17

Service of application for intervention order

    (1)     If the applicant for an intervention order is not the affected person, the applicant must as soon as practicable after the application has been made arrange for a copy of the application to be served personally on—

        (a)     the affected person; or

        (b)     if the affected person is a child, on any parent with whom the child normally or regularly resides; or

        (c)     if a guardianship order under the Guardianship and Administration Act 1986 is in force in respect of the affected person, on the guardian appointed under that Act.

    (2)     The application must be served on the respondent by—

        (a)     delivering a true copy of the application to the respondent personally; or

        (b)     leaving a true copy of the application for the respondent at the respondent's last or most usual place of residence or of business with a person who apparently resides or works there and who apparently is not less than 16 years of age.

    (3)             If it appears to the court, by evidence on oath or by affidavit, that service cannot be promptly effected, the court may make an order for substituted service.