Where must documents be served once the recipient has reported a place to the government, and does a later change of that report affect where service is made?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we read the paper by which the recipient reported a place of service to the government, any later paper changing that report, and the record of service showing the place where the documents served under the preceding provision were actually delivered.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading follows the provision literally: where the person who is to receive service under the preceding provision has reported a place, chosen from address or business office as prescribed by Presidential Decree, the documents must be served at that reported place, and the same applies once the report has been changed.
Another reading notes what the provision does not reach: it tells the government where to serve once a report exists, but says nothing about a reported place the person has left, nor about what the Presidential Decree requires for a report to be made.
Your judgment
How can the file show that the report was made in the form the Presidential Decree requires, so that service at the reported place was the service the provision demands?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision or the Presidential Decree is amended on what a report must state, or if a decision addresses what follows when a reported place is no longer where the recipient can be found.