10Service of filed documents

10 Service of filed documents

10.1 Service of filed documents

(cf SCR Part 15, rule 28)

(1) Unless the court orders otherwise, a party that files a document must as soon as practicable serve copies of the document on each other active party.

(2) In the case of proceedings in the Local Court, an originating process may, and a defence must, be served on the other parties, on behalf of the party by whom it was filed, by an officer of the Local Court.

Note.

See rules 10.7 and 10.8 as to how service is to be effected by a court.

(3) Despite subrule (2), a defence that is filed in proceedings in the Local Court by means of Online Registry (within the meaning of Part 3) must be served on the other parties by the party that filed the defence rather than by an officer of the Local Court.

rule 10.1: Am 2010 (527), rule 3; 2016 (255), Sch 1 [11].