Short answer. You have to separately request and pay. Section 27 only requires the officer to promptly notify all parties that the deposition has been filed; furnishing copies to the parties or the deponent happens only upon their request and payment of reasonable charges.
What the law says
When a deposition upon interrogatories is filed, the officer taking it shall promptly give notice thereof to all the parties, and may furnish copies to them or to the deponent upon payment of reasonable charges therefor.
Rule 23, Section 27 — Notice of filing and furnishing copies. Read the full provision →
Two separate obligations
Notice of the filing is mandatory and automatic, owed to every party in the case the moment the deposition is filed. Furnishing an actual copy is a different, conditional obligation that only arises upon request and payment. The section keeps these two duties textually and functionally distinct: the officer 'shall promptly give notice' — mandatory language — but only 'may furnish copies... upon payment of reasonable charges' — permissive language tied to a condition. Conflating the two would wrongly suggest that every party automatically receives a copy of the deposition simply because it was filed, when the rule actually only guarantees notice that the filing occurred.
Why the distinction matters
A party who wants their own copy of the deposition has to affirmatively ask for it and pay the reasonable charges, rather than assuming one will automatically arrive along with the notice that the filing has occurred. This matters practically because a party who receives only the notice, and does nothing further, will not have the actual deposition transcript in hand — they will know it exists and was filed, but not what it says, until they take the additional step of requesting a copy and covering the associated charges themselves. The deponent is treated the same way as the parties on this point: the officer 'may furnish copies to them or to the deponent,' so even the person who was examined has to separately request a copy rather than being sent one automatically once the transcript is filed.
The parallel to oral depositions
This mirrors how oral depositions are handled under Sections 21 and 22 — automatic notice of filing, paired with copies available only on request and payment — just consolidated into one section for the written-interrogatory track. The consistency between the two tracks means a party does not need to learn a different notice-and-copy procedure depending on whether a deposition was taken orally or on written interrogatories; the same basic division between automatic notice and conditional copies applies either way, only the specific section numbers differ.
Related provisions
- Rule 23, Section 27 — Notice of filing and furnishing copies
- Rule 23, Section 22 — Furnishing copies