Service of notices, documents etc.
360 Service of notices, documents etc.
Any written advice, direction, order, requirement, requisition, notice, authorisation, notification or any other document (document) under this Act is taken to have been given or issued to or served upon a person if—
it is served personally on the person to whom it is directed or on a person authorised by that person, either generally or in a particular case, to accept service of anything on that person’s behalf; or
it is left at the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives, issues or serves it; or
it is sent by post or facsimile transmission to the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives, issues or serves it; or
where a way of service is prescribed by any other Act or law in relation to a person or class of person—it is served in the way so prescribed.
Where any document is given, issued or served, the person who gives, issues or serves it may attend before a justice and depose on oath and in writing endorsed on a copy of the document as to the way of giving, issue or service of the document showing the date of personal service, leaving, posting, transmission or service in other way specified in subsection (1) of such document.
Every such deposition upon production in court is evidence of the matters contained in the deposition and in the absence of evidence to the contrary is conclusive evidence of the giving, issuing or serving of such document to or on the person to whom it is directed.
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