Federal Courts Rules

Marginal note:Manner of service — other documents

• 139 (1) If a document is not required to be served personally, service on a party is to be effected by

  • (a) personal service;

  • (b) leaving it at the party’s address for service;

  • (c) mailing it or delivering it by courier to the party’s address for service;

  • (d) transmitting it by fax to the party’s solicitor of record, or, if the party has no solicitor of record, to the party;

  • (e) transmitting it to the electronic address set out by the party in Form 141A; or

  • (f) any other means that the Court may direct.

• Marginal note:Service on other parties

  (2) Subject to subsection 36(3) and rules 145 and 204.1, the document shall be served on all other parties.

• Marginal note:If no address for service

  (3) If a party has no address for service at the time of service, the document may be served by leaving it at, or by sending it by registered mail or courier to,

  • (a) if the party is an individual, the party’s usual or last known address; and

  • (b) if the party is an unincorporated body, a group of persons or a corporation, the principal or last known address of the body, group or corporation.

• Marginal note:If no known address

  (4) If a party has no known address at the time of service, the document may be served by depositing it at the office of the Registry where the proceeding was commenced.