Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 28A

             (1)  For the purposes of any Act that requires or permits a document to be served on a person, whether the expression "serve", "give" or "send" or any other expression is used, then, unless the contrary intention appears, the document may be served:

                     (a)  on a natural person:

                              (i)  by delivering it to the person personally; or

                             (ii)  by leaving it at, or by sending it by pre‑paid post to, the address of the place of residence or business of the person last known to the person serving the document; or

                     (b)  on a body corporate--by leaving it at, or sending it by pre‑paid post to, the head office, a registered office or a principal office of the body corporate.

             (2)  Nothing in subsection (1):

                     (a)  affects the operation of any other law of the Commonwealth, or any law of a State or Territory, that authorizes the service of a document otherwise than as provided in that subsection; or

                     (b)  affects the power of a court to authorize service of a document otherwise than as provided in that subsection.