Supreme Court Rules 1987

(1) Where personal service of a document is not required, the document may be served:

(a) by leaving it at the proper address of the person to be served; or

(b) by sending it by prepaid post to the person to be served at his proper address; or

(c) where provision is made by or under an Act for service of a document on a corporation (other than a company within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001), by serving it in accordance with that provision; or

(ca) if the person to be served sues by a solicitor or appears by a solicitor and the solicitor has endorsed or stated an email address under rule 6.05

– by sending the document to the solicitor's email address; or

(cb) if the person to be served sues in person or appears in person and has endorsed or stated an email address under rule 6.05 – by sending the document to the email address; or

(d) where the solicitor for a party has facilities for the reception of documents in a document exchange – by delivering it into those facilities.

(2) For the purpose of subrule (1), the proper address of a person is the address for service of that person in the proceeding but if, at the time service is to be effected, the person has no address for service, the proper address is:

(a) in the case of an individual – the person's usual or last known place of residence or of business;

(b) in the case of individuals suing or being sued in the name of a firm – the principal or last known place of business of the firm; and

(c) in the case of a corporation:

(i) where the corporation is a company within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 – the registered office of the company situated as indicated in section

109X of the Corporations Act 2001; and

(ii) where the corporation is not a company – the registered or principal office of the corporation.

(3) Where no person can be found at the address for service of a plaintiff who sues or a defendant who has appeared in person, a document in the proceeding may be served on that plaintiff or defendant by filing it.

(3.1) A party who serves a document by filing in accordance with subrule (3) shall endorse on a backsheet or on the back of the last sheet a statement that it is filed as such service.

(4) The day of service of a document, where it is delivered into the facilities of a document exchange in accordance with subrule (1)(d), shall be taken to be:

(a) the day following the day on which it was so delivered; or

(b) where it was delivered on a Friday, the following Monday.

(5) In this rule document exchange means a document exchange for the time being approved by the Chief Justice on the recommendation of the Law

Society Northern Territory.