ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 2009 - SECT 101 Service of documents

ASSOCIATIONS INCORPORATION ACT 2009 - SECT 101

101 Service of documents

(1) A document that is authorised or required by this Act or the regulations to be served on an association may be served by any of the following methods--

(a) by personal delivery to the address specified by the association for the service of documents of that kind,

(b) by post to the address specified by the association for the service of documents of that kind,

(c) by personal delivery to the association's public officer or to each of 2 committee members of the association,

(d) by post to the official address or any other office of the association or by leaving it at any such office with a person apparently over the age of 16 years,

(e) by email to an email address specified by the association for the service of documents of that kind,

(f) by any other method authorised by the regulations for the service of documents of that kind,

(g) in such other manner as the Secretary may in the special circumstances of the case direct.

(2) As soon as practicable after a document addressed to an association is received by a person who is, or has at any time within the past 12 months been, the association's public officer or a committee member of the association, the person must bring the document to the attention of the committee of the association.

: Maximum penalty--1 penalty unit.

(3) Nothing in this section affects the operation of any provision of a law or of the rules of a court authorising a document to be served on an association by any other method.

(4) In this section,
"serve" includes give or send.