Singapore legislation
Regulation 11
of Administration of Justice (Protection) (Non-Publication Directions) Rules 2017
Regulation 11
Modes of service
Subregulation 1
Any document required or allowed to be served on a person under these Rules must be served in accordance with this rule.
Subregulation 2
The document may be served on a person —
by leaving with the person a copy of that document;
by registered post to the usual or last known address of the person in Singapore; or
in the case of Forms 2 and 3, by ordinary post to the usual or last known address of the person in Singapore.
Subregulation 3
If the document is a non‑publication direction in respect of any matter that is published on an Internet website, or if the document relates to such a direction, the document may be served on the publisher to whom the direction applies in the following manner:
if the publisher has an electronic mail address — by sending an electronic communication of the direction to that electronic mail address;
if the publisher has an account on any social media or social networking Internet website, and that social media or social networking Internet website provides a mechanism for that person to receive electronic communications in that account — by sending an electronic communication of the document to that account;
if the publisher maintains an Internet website, a blog or a page on any social media or social networking Internet website, and that Internet website, blog or page on that social media or social networking Internet website provides a mechanism for the posting of comments on that Internet website, blog or page on that social media or social networking Internet website — by posting an electronic communication of that document on that Internet website, blog or page on that social media or social networking Internet website.
Subregulation 4
If the person on whom a document is to be served —
does not appear to have a usual or last known address; and
does not appear to have any electronic mail address, account or page on any social media or social networking Internet website, Internet website, or blog through which service can be effected under paragraph (3),the document may be served by causing a notification containing the following information to be published in the Gazette:
a statement identifying that document;
a statement that the person to be served may obtain that document from the Attorney‑General by writing to the address or electronic mail address specified in the notification, or by any other way that may be specified in the notification.