Title XVII: Time limits, bailiff's documents and notifications.

Service shall be effected on paper or by electronic means.

Service must be effected personally. Service on a legal person is effected personally when the document is delivered to its legal representative, to an authorised representative of the latter or to any other person authorised for that purpose.

If personal service proves impossible, the document may be delivered either at the addressee’s domicile or, in the absence of a known domicile, at the addressee’s residence. The judicial officer must relate in the document the steps he has taken to effect personal service on the addressee and the circumstances characterising the impossibility of such service. The copy may be given to any person present at the domicile or residence…

If no one is able or willing to receive the copy of the document and if it is clear from the checks made by the bailiff, which will be mentioned in the document of service, that the addressee does indeed live at the address indicated, service is made at the addressee’s home. In this case, the bailiff will leave a notice at the addressee’s home or residence in accordance with…

Where the document is not delivered personally, the bailiff shall state on the copy the conditions under which delivery was made. The copy of the document served must be placed in a sealed envelope bearing only the name and address of the addressee of the document and the bailiff’s stamp affixed to the seal of the envelope.