37Acceptance of service

#### 37 Acceptance of service (1) This rule applies if, in a proceeding commenced as an action in rem against a ship or other property, an Australian legal practitioner acting for a defendant in the proceeding or for the owner of the ship or property undertakes in writing to accept service of initiating process, or any other instrument, in relation to the proceeding. (2) The process or instrument may be served on the Australian legal practitioner in any way in which other process of the court may be served on the Australian legal practitioner instead of being served in accordance with rule 30, 31, 32 or 36, as the case may be.