21Notice of applications

21 Notice of applications

21 Notice of applications

(1) If the court sets a hearing date under section 20, the applicant or the court must give a copy of the application to the following persons at least 5 days before the hearing date—

(a) if the applicant is a community corrections officer—the offender, unless the offender’s whereabouts are unknown or the court decides to deal with the matter under section 22 without the offender being present,

(b) if the applicant is an offender—a community corrections officer.

(2) The applicant or the court may give a copy of the application in any of the following ways—

(a) for the giving of a copy to the offender—

(i) by serving the copy on the offender personally, or

(ii) by email to an email address, or by other electronic means, specified by the offender for the service of documents of that kind, or

(iii) by sending the copy to the offender’s address as last known to Community Corrections,

(b) for the giving of a copy to a community corrections officer—

(i) by serving the copy on the community corrections officer personally, or

(ii) by email to an email address, or by other electronic means, specified by the community corrections officer for the service of documents of that kind, or

(iii) by sending the copy to the community corrections officer’s work address.

(3) In this section—

Community Corrections means the Community Corrections Division, Department of Communities and Justice.