Children’s Court Rule 2000

This clause applies to proceedings under the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998.

A legal practitioner who has not given an address for service is not entitled to be heard by the Court in proceedings to which the clause applies unless the Court orders otherwise.

A legal practitioner may give an address for service in proceedings to which the clause applies—

by filing a notice of address for service in accordance with Form 1 of Schedule 1, or

by filing another relevant document that includes an address for service.

Unless the Court orders otherwise, if a legal practitioner who does not have an address for service files a document in proceedings to which the clause applies, the document must include the legal practitioner’s address for service.

An address for service must be an address in New South Wales.

A legal practitioner may change the legal practitioner’s address for service in the proceedings by filing a notice of address for service in accordance with Form 1.

Unless the Court orders otherwise, a legal practitioner who files a notice of address for service in proceedings under this clause must serve a sealed copy of the notice on each other party to the proceedings.

If a legal practitioner notifies an address for service under this clause, leaving a copy of a document at, or sending a copy of a document by post addressed to the person at, that address for service is taken to be good service on the person.

If a legal practitioner notifies an address for service that is an office that has an exchange box in a document exchange of Australian Document Exchange Pty Limited, in the State, leaving a copy of a document, addressed to that legal practitioner, at that exchange box or at another exchange box for transmission to that exchange box is taken to be good service on the person on a day two days after the copy is left.