If a person effecting service of a document does not find the person that is to be served at the non-workplace location where service is to be effected, the document may be delivered to an employee or other worker, or to a person that lives with the person to be served, who will exercise reasonable discretion concerning the receipt of that document. The same applies if a person engaging in postal services is to deliver the document at the business office of Japan Post Co., Ltd.
就業場所以外の書類の送達をすべき場所において送達を受けるべき者に出会わないときは、使用人その他の従業者又は同居者であって、書類の受領について相当のわきまえのあるものに書類を交付することができる。郵便の業務に従事する者が日本郵便株式会社の営業所において書類を交付すべきときも、同様とする。
If a person effecting service does not find the person to be served at their workplace (including if the place reported in the notification submitted pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of Article 104, paragraph (1) is the workplace) and another person stated in Article 103, paragraph (2) or that person's legal representative or employee or other worker who will exercise reasonable discretion concerning the receipt of a document does not refuse to have the document delivered to them, the document may be delivered to such a person.
If a person that is to be served or a person to whom a document is to be delivered pursuant to the provisions of the first sentence of paragraph (1) refuses to service or refuses delivery of the document without a legitimate reason for refusing to do so, the document may be left at a place where service of the document may be effected.
送達を受けるべき者又は第一項前段の規定により書類の交付を受けるべき者が正当な理由なくこれを受けることを拒んだときは、書類の送達をすべき場所に書類を差し置くことができる。
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