When a party is a soldier at war, serving with a force stationed abroad, or a crew member of a vessel in military service, who arranges service of the papers on that person?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we look for the papers showing the recipient falls within one of the three groups the provision names, the name of the unit and its commander, the presiding judge's request to that commander, and whatever comes back showing the papers were handed over.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading puts service entirely in the presiding judge's hands: for a soldier in a force at war, a person serving with a force stationed abroad, or a crew member of a vessel in military service, the presiding judge entrusts service to that person's affiliated commander, and no other route is given.
Another reading notes that the second paragraph makes the rules of a further provision of the Civil Procedure Act apply to this kind of service, but this provision's own text does not say what those rules require, so how the request is made and how the completed service reaches the court is left for the reader to read in the official text.
Your judgment
How does the file show that the commander asked to serve was in fact the recipient's affiliated commander, and not merely a commander of the same service?
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 is amended to change who may be served this way or how the request is made, or if a court decision explains what the rules applied mutatis mutandis require of such a request.