Where must an administrative agency post the matters a person needs to file a civil petition, and what happens where no civil petition office is installed?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
For this practice file, we read the agency's organisational chart or the office's signage to see whether a civil petition office exists, the materials actually posted there, and the agency's internet homepage, since the provision ties the duty to each of these places.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the duty as written: the head of the administrative agency must post, at the civil petition office, civil petition related statutes and handbooks, the standards and procedure for processing a petition, and other matters necessary for applying, and must provide them through the internet homepage and the like, in order to give petitioners convenience in applying.
Another reading rests on the parenthesis defining the civil petition office: where that office is not installed, the department in charge of receiving and dispatching documents stands in its place, and the provision's words 'etc.' leave open what other means of providing convenience the agency may use and how far the homepage must carry the posted matters.
Your judgment
If a petitioner could not find the processing standard for a petition, how would the file show which posting place and duty applied to that agency?
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 where the posting duty falls or what must be posted, or if an authoritative decision clarifies what counts as matters necessary for filing.