Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) If rules of court
require a person to serve a document, the person may serve the
document —
(a) if
the party has provided a fax number under rule 13(2), by sending the
document by fax to that number; or
(b) if
the party has provided an email address under rule 13, by sending the
document as an attachment to an email sent to that address.
(2) A document cannot
be served by email under subrule (1) if under rule 12(2) or 13A(2) it
cannot be lodged electronically.
(3) Rule 11(4)
and (5), with any necessary changes, apply to a document being served by fax
in the same way as they apply to a document being lodged by fax.
(4) A document served
by email that must be signed by a person is authenticated for the purposes of
the Courts and Tribunals (Electronic Processes Facilitation) Act 2013
section 10 if the electronic version of the document that is served
states the name of the person whose signature is required at each place where
the signature is required.
(5) A document that is
served by email or fax on a person is to be taken to have been
served —
(a) if
the whole document is sent before 4.30 p.m. on a working day, on that day;
(b)
otherwise, on the next working day.
(6) Subrule (1), with
any necessary changes, applies to the service by the Court of any document on
a party.
(7) This rule does not
prevent a person from consenting to being served in a manner other than in
accordance with rules of court.
[Rule 14 amended: Gazette
15 Aug 2014 p. 2943; 18 Dec 2015 p. 5077.]