Fair Work Commission Rules 2024
22Serving by persons other than the FWC
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22 Serving by persons other than the FWC
(1) Subject to these Rules, and any directions of the FWC, a person that is required to serve a document on another person must serve the document as soon as practicable.
(2) The document may be served on the other person:
(a) by leaving the document with, or tendering the document to:
(i) if the person, or the person’s nominated representative, is an individual—the person or representative; or
(ii) if the person, or the person’s nominated representative, is a body corporate, an organisation or a branch of an organisation—the secretary of the body corporate, the organisation or the branch; or
(b) by leaving the document:
(i) if the person, or the person’s nominated representative, is an individual—with an individual, apparently over the age of 15 years, at the residence, or usual place of business, of the person or representative; or
(ii) if the person, or the person’s nominated representative, is a body corporate, an organisation or a branch of an organisation—at the registered office of the body corporate or the office of the organisation or branch; or
(iii) if the person, or the person’s nominated representative, has notified an address for service in the matter—at that address; or
(c) if subrule (3) is complied with, by posting the document in a prepaid envelope sent by express post or registered post to:
(i) if the person, or the person’s nominated representative, is an individual—the residence, or usual place of business, of the person or representative; or
(ii) if the person, or the person’s nominated representative, is a body corporate, an organisation or a branch of an organisation—the secretary, at the registered office of the body corporate or the office of the organisation or branch; or
(iii) if the person, or the person’s nominated representative, has notified an address for service in the matter—that address; or
(d) if subrule (4) is complied with, by emailing the document to an email address:
(i) currently published as the email address of the person or the person’s nominated representative; or
(ii) advised by the person or the person’s nominated representative, in response to a request for an email address that was made immediately before the transmission of the document, as the person’s or representative’s email address; or
(iii) appearing as the email address of the person or the person’s nominated representative on a document lodged with the FWC by the person or representative in the same matter; or
(e) if subrule (4) is complied with, by emailing the document to the email address of an employee if: