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1979 No. 140 FEDERAL COURT RULES - RULE 7.4

Ordinary service: how effected
4. (1) Where personal service of a document is not required, the document may
be served-

   (a)  by leaving a copy of the document at the proper address of the person
        to be served between the hours of nine in the morning and five in the
        afternoon on any day on which the Registry in that State or Territory
        is open; or

   (b)  by sending a copy of the document by pre-paid post addressed to the
        person to be served at his proper address; or

   (c)  where any enactment of the Commonwealth or of the State or Territory
        in which service is to be effected provides for service of a document
        on a corporation or organization by serving the document in accordance
        with such provision; or

   (d)  where a person to be served has, under rule 7 of this Order, filed a
        notice for service at an exchange box of a solicitor, by leaving a
        copy of the document, addressed to that solicitor, in that exchange
        box.

(2) For the purposes of sub-rule (1), the proper address of a person shall be
the address for service of that person in the proceeding but if, at the time
when the copy is left or posted pursuant to sub-rule (1), he has no address
for service in the proceeding, his usual or last known place of business or of
abode shall be his proper address.

(3) The time of service of any document for the purpose of any proceeding
shall, where the copy of the document-

   (a)  is sent by pre-paid post in accordance with paragraph (1) (b)-be seven
        days after the copy is so sent; or

   (b)  is left in an exchange box in accordance with paragraph (1) (d)-be two
        days after the copy is so left.



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