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 of the addressee.
The copy may only be left on condition that the person present accepts it and declares his full name and capacity.
The bailiff must, in all these cases, leave a dated notice at the domicile or residence of the addressee notifying him of the delivery of the copy and mentioning the nature of the document, the name of the applicant and the particulars of the person to whom the copy was delivered.