Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If the person served is required or permitted to do an act specified or referred to in the process not later than a particular day, service is only effective if the period between service and that day is not less than:
(a) 21 days; or
(b) such shorter period as a court or authority, on application, allows.
(2) The matters that the court or authority is to take into account in determining an application to allow a shorter period include:
(a) urgency; and
(b) the place of residence or business of the person to be served; and
(c) whether a related or similar proceeding has been commenced against the person or another person.
(3) In this section:
"court or authority" means the court in which, or the authority before whom, the proceeding in relation to which an initiating process has been issued will or might be heard.