Time for service
25 Time for service
If the person served is required or permitted to do an act specified or referred to in the process not later than a particular day, service is only effective if the period between service and that day is not less than:
21 days; or
such shorter period as a court or authority, on application, allows.
The matters that the court or authority is to take into account in determining an application to allow a shorter period include:
urgency; and
the place of residence or business of the person to be served; and
whether a related or similar proceeding has been commenced against the person or another person.
In this section:
court or authority means the court in which, or the authority before whom, the proceeding in relation to which an initiating process has been issued will or might be heard.
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