Residential Tenancies Act 1987

Any notice or document required or authorised to be given under this Act to any person may —

be given to that person personally; or

be sent by post addressed to that person at any place specified by the person as a place where the person’s mail may be directed or, if the person has not so specified, at the person’s last known place of residence, employment or business; or

with the consent of that person or in other prescribed circumstances, be given or served by prescribed electronic means.

If a letter is sent in accordance with subsection (1)(b) the giving of the notice or document so sent is deemed to be effected at the time when the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post.

If a notice or document required or authorised to be given under this Act cannot be given or sent to a person in accordance with subsection (1), it shall be deemed to have been given to that person if —

a copy of it is published in a daily newspaper circulating throughout all, or most of, the State; or

a court hearing proceedings under this Act orders an alternative means of giving the notice or document, and that means of giving the notice or document is effected; or

it is made publicly available in any manner prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph, including (without limitation) by means of a website.

Any notice or document required or authorised to be given under this Act to any tenant under a residential tenancy agreement shall be deemed to have been duly given to the tenant if it is given —

to any person apparently over the age of 16 years apparently residing in the premises the subject of the agreement; or

to the person who ordinarily pays the rent under the agreement.

A notice or document required or authorised to be given under this Act to a lessor under a residential tenancy agreement shall be deemed to have been duly given to the lessor if it has been given to the property manager of the residential premises, to any person apparently over the age of 16 years apparently residing at the place of residence of the lessor, or to the person who ordinarily receives the rent under the agreement.

Where 2 or more persons are lessors or tenants under a residential tenancy agreement it shall be sufficient compliance with a provision of this Act requiring or authorising that a notice or document be given to the lessor or tenant under a residential tenancy agreement if the notice or document is given to any one of the lessors or tenants, as the case may be.