A document is taken to have been served:

(a)

on the date when service is acknowledged;

(b)

if served by post to an address in Australia — on the third day after it was posted;

(c)

if served by airmail to an address outside Australia — on the fourteenth day after it was posted;

(d)

if served by electronic communication — on the day when it was sent;

(e) if served by delivery to a document exchange — on the next working day after the day when it was delivered; or

(f)

on a date fixed by the court.