Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) Subject to subrule
(2) and Rule 3, this Order applies to the service in the State of any
document originating in a Convention country and connected with civil
proceedings pending before a court or other tribunal of that Convention
country where a request for service (together with accompanying documents) in
accordance with Rule 3 is forwarded by a competent
authority —
(a) to
the Central Authority, which forwards it to an additional authority in the
State; or
(b) to
an additional authority in the State.
(2) Where the request
for service is forwarded to an additional authority in the State in accordance
with paragraph (1)(b) and (in the opinion of the additional
authority) —
(a)
compliance with the request for service may infringe Australia’s
sovereignty or security; or
(b) the
document to which the request for service relates is not a judicial document,
the additional
authority shall transmit the request for service and accompanying documents to
the Central Authority.
(3) Where the Central
Authority returns the request for service and the accompanying documents to
the additional authority, this Order shall then apply to the service in the
State of the document to which the request relates.
[Rule 2 inserted in Gazette
7 Feb 1992 p. 677.]