Queensland Consolidated Regulations

CHILDRENS COURT RULES 2016 - REG 27

27 Method of service

(1) This rule applies to a requirement to serve a document on a person, unless the document must be personally served on the person.

Note—

Personal service is required under the Child Protection Act , sections 41 , 56 and 227 .

(2) If a person is represented by a lawyer in a proceeding for which the document is being served, the document must be served on the person—

(a) by giving it personally to the person’s lawyer; or

(b) by sending it by post to the address of the lawyer’s place of business; or

(c) if the lawyer for the person has—

(i) a fax number—by faxing it to the person at that number; or

(ii) an email address—by emailing it to the person at that address; or

(d) by leaving it with someone who—

(i) is at the address of the lawyer’s place of business; and

(ii) is apparently an adult and apparently employed there; or

(e) if the court approves another electronic method to send a document and the person’s lawyer has an address for service using that method—by transmitting it electronically to the lawyer at that address; or

(f) in another way ordered by the court.

(3) If a person is not represented by a lawyer in a proceeding for which the document is being served, a document must be served on a person in 1 of the following ways—

(a) by personally serving the document on the person under rule 28 ;

(b) by sending it by post to the person’s relevant address;

(c) if the person provides—

(i) a fax number—by faxing it to the person at that number; or

(ii) an email address—by emailing it to the person at that address;

(d) by leaving it with someone who—

(i) is at the person’s relevant address; and

(ii) is apparently an adult and apparently residing or employed there;

(e) if the court approves another electronic method to send a document and the person has an address for service using that method—by transmitting it electronically to the person at that address;

(f) in another way ordered by the court.

(4) However, if a person serves a document on another person under subrule (2) (d) , the person must also give the document personally to the other person at the next reasonable opportunity.

Example of a reasonable opportunity—

at the next appearance in the proceeding

(5) In this rule—

"relevant address" , for serving a document on a person, means—

(a) the address for the person stated in the person’s notice of address for service; or

(b) if the person does not have an address for service or no longer resides at that address—the person’s last known residential address.