Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) This Rule applies
to the service of any process required to be served in any civil or commercial
proceedings pending before a court or other tribunal of a foreign country
where a letter of request from such a tribunal for service on a person in
Western Australia of any such process sent with the letter is received by the
Principal Registrar through an official channel.
(2) In order that
service may be effected under this Rule the letter of request must be
accompanied by a translation thereof in English, by 2 copies of the process to
be served and by 2 copies of a translation of the process in English.
(3) Subject to
Rule 4 and to any Act which provides for the manner in which documents
may be served on bodies corporate, service of the process shall be effected by
leaving a copy of it and of the translation with the person to be served.
(4) The Principal
Registrar shall transmit through the official channel to the tribunal making
the request, a certificate establishing the fact, and the date of service, or
stating the reasons for which it has not been possible to effect service, and
in the certificate shall certify the amount properly payable for effecting or
attempting to effect service. The certificate shall be sealed with the seal of
the Supreme Court for use out of the jurisdiction.
[Rule 2 amended in Gazette
14 Dec 1979 p. 3869.]