Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00417:reg:3:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00417
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 4/100)
Character Range: 127817–130427

in a sealed envelope addressed to the person; or
 (c) by sending it to the address by pre‑paid post in a sealed envelope addressed to the person; or
 (d) if the address includes the number of a document exchange box of a lawyer—by sealing the document in an envelope that complies with any prepayment requirements of the document exchange and is addressed to the lawyer (at that box address), and placing the envelope:
 (i) in that box; or
 (ii) in a box provided at another branch of the document exchange for delivery of documents to the box address.
 (2) If the person does not have an address for service, the document may be served on the person:
 (a) by sending it to the person's last known email address; or
 (b) by delivering it to the person's last known address or place of business in a sealed envelope addressed to the person; or
 (c) by sending it by pre‑paid post in a sealed envelope addressed to the person at the person's last known address or place of business; or
 (d) if a law 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 organisation—by serving the document in accordance with such provision.

2.41  When service is effected
  A document served electronically or by post is taken to have been served:
 (a) if the document was sent electronically—on the next business day after the document was sent; or
 (b) if the document was posted to an address in Australia—on the day by which the document would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post; or
 (c) if the document was posted by airmail to an address outside Australia—on the 28th day after posting.

Division 2.6.4—Service of Application for Divorce

2.42  Service of application
  An Application for Divorce must be served on the respondent by:
 (a) personal service in accordance with rule 2.35; or
 (b) sending it by pre‑paid post in a sealed envelope addressed to the respondent at the respondent's last known address.

2.43  Additional requirements for service by post
  A person serving an Application for Divorce by post must include with the document:
 (a) a form of acknowledgment of service in accordance with the approved form; and
 (b) an envelope that:
 (i) is addressed to the address for service of the person on whose behalf the Application for Divorce is served; and
 (ii) if the Application for Divorce is to be sent to an address in Australia—bears the correct postage for the return by post of the acknowledgment of service.

2.44  Acknowledgment of service
 (1) A person served with an Application for Divorce may