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ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 29

Meaning of service by post

             (1)  Where an Act authorizes or requires any document to be served by post, whether the expression "serve" or the expression "give" or "send" or any other expression is used, then unless the contrary intention appears the service shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing prepaying and posting the document as a letter, and unless the contrary is proved to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.

             (2)  This section does not affect the operation of section 160 of the Evidence Act 1995 .


 

   



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