Evidence Act 1995

It is presumed (unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt about the presumption is adduced) that a postal article sent by prepaid post addressed to a person at a specified address in Australia or in an external Territory was received at that address on the seventh working day after having been posted.

This section does not apply if:

the proceeding relates to a contract; and

all the parties to the proceeding are parties to the contract; and

subsection (1) is inconsistent with a term of the contract.

In this section:

a Saturday or a Sunday; or

a public holiday or a bank holiday in the place to which the postal article was addressed.

Section 182 gives this section a wider application in relation to postal articles sent by a Commonwealth agency.