Magistrates Court (General) Rules 2005

For the purposes of the Courts and Tribunals (Electronic Processes Facilitation) Act 2013 section 12(1), a document that is required to be issued to a person by the Court is issued to the person if —

the person is an approved user of the ECMS in respect of a document of that type and an electronic version of the document is issued to the person by means of the ECMS; or

the person has provided an email address for service and an electronic version of the document is sent by email to the person at that address.

For the purposes of the Courts and Tribunals (Electronic Processes Facilitation) Act 2013 section 10, a document issued by the Court that must be signed by the person issuing it is authenticated if —

the Court issues the document in an electronic form by means of the ECMS; and

the electronic document identifies the person who issued it.

A document that is issued to a person in accordance with subrule (1) is to be taken to have been issued —

if the whole document is available before 4.30 p.m. on a working day, on that day;

otherwise, on the next working day.