Service and Execution of Process Act 1992
25Time for service
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25 Time for service
(1) If the person served is required or permitted to do an act specified or referred to in the process not later than a particular day, service is only effective if the period between service and that day is not less than: (a) 21 days; or (b) such shorter period as a court or authority, on application, allows. (2) The matters that the court or authority is to take into account in determining an application to allow a shorter period include: (a) urgency; and (b) the place of residence or business of the person to be served; and (c) whether a related or similar proceeding has been commenced against the person or another person. (3) In this section:
court or authority means the court in which, or the authority before whom, the proceeding in relation to which an initiating process has been issued will or might be heard.