(1) For the purposes
of enabling the service by fax of documents that under this Part are required
to be served, a person may, in addition to providing an address for service
under regulation 127B(1), provide a fax number operating at that address.
(2) For the purposes
of enabling the service by email of documents that under this Part are
required to be served, a person may, in addition to providing an address for
service under regulation 127B(1), provide an email address operating at
that address.
(3) If a legal
practitioner practises in a business with one or more other legal
practitioners or people —
(a) any
fax number provided under subregulation (1) must be the fax number of the
business and not that of the legal practitioner personally; and
(b) any
email address provided under subregulation (2) must be the email address
of the business and not that of the legal practitioner personally.
(4) A person who under
this regulation provides an email address or a fax number is to be taken to
consent to being served with documents by fax at that fax number, or as an
attachment to an email sent to that email address, as the case may be.
(5) If a party’s
fax number or email address provided under this regulation changes, the party
must lodge with the warden and serve a notice of change of address as soon as
practicable after the change occurs.
[Regulation 127CB inserted: Gazette 9 Nov
2012 p. 5408-9; amended: SL 2022/118 r. 7.]