Singapore legislation
Regulation 23
Regulation 23
Service of documents
Subregulation 1
Unless any provision of these Regulations or the Appeal Committee requires the document to be served personally, any document required to be sent to or served on any person for the purposes of any appeal proceedings may be —
delivered to that person’s appropriate address;
sent to that person’s appropriate address by post; or
sent in any other manner as may be agreed between the person serving and the person to be served.
Subregulation 2
For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person’s appropriate address is —
the address for service in the appeal which that person has notified to the Chairman, the Appeal Committee or the Secretary; or
if no address has been so notified, the person’s usual or last known place of residence or business.
Subregulation 3
Service of a document under paragraph (1) on the person to whom the document is addressed takes effect —
if the document is sent by ordinary post to the appropriate address — on the day after it would in the ordinary course of post be delivered, unless it is returned undelivered;
if the document is sent by prepaid registered post to the appropriate address — 2 days after the day it was posted, even if it is returned undelivered;
if the document is sent by fax in accordance with paragraph (1)(c) and a notice of successful transmission of the fax is received — on the day of the transmission; and
if the document is sent by email in accordance with paragraph (1)(c) — at the time that the email becomes capable of being retrieved by the person.
Subregulation 4
If the Appeal Committee is satisfied that the interests of justice require the service of a document in any other manner, the Appeal Committee may, on the request of the person serving the document or of the Appeal Committee’s own initiative, make an order —
for the document to be served in that other manner specified by the Appeal Committee; and
specifying when the document is deemed to be served.
Subregulation 5
The Appeal Committee may dispense with service of a document for the purposes of any appeal proceedings if the interests of justice so require.