Credit Act 1984

Where, under this Act, a document or notice is required or permitted to be given to or served on a person, the document or notice may be given or served—

where the person is a natural person, by giving it to or serving it personally on the person or by sending it by post to the person at his usual or last known place of abode or business; or

where the person is a corporation, by leaving it at or sending it by post to the registered office of the corporation.

In subsection (1), registered office means—

the office of the corporation that is the registered office or principal office in accordance with the law of the State or Territory by or under which the corporation is incorporated;

where the corporation is not incorporated in Australia, an office registered under the law of a State or Territory as a registered office of the corporation; or

in the case of a corporation that has no such registered office or principal office, the principal place of business of the corporation in Victoria or, if it has no place of business in Victoria, its principal place of business in Australia.

Where the rights and obligations of a person under this Act have been assigned or have passed by operation of law to another person, a document or notice given to or served on the first-mentioned person at his usual or last known place of abode or business shall be deemed to have been given to or served on the second-mentioned person unless the person giving or serving the document or notice had before he gave or served the document or notice been given notice in writing that the rights and obligations of the first-mentioned person had been assigned or had so passed to the second-mentioned person.