New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BUSINESS NAMES ACT 2002 - SECT 38

38 Service of documents

(1) A document that is authorised or required by this Act or the regulations to be served on any person may be served:

(a) in the case of a natural person:

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

(ii) by sending it by post to the address specified by the person for the giving or service of documents or, if no such address is specified, the residential or business address of the person last known to the person giving or serving the document, or

(iii) by sending it by facsimile transmission to the facsimile number of the person, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate:

(i) by leaving it with a person apparently of or above the age of 16 years at, or by sending it by post to, the head office, a registered office or a principal office of the body corporate or to an address specified by the body corporate for the giving or service of documents, or

(ii) by sending it by facsimile transmission to the facsimile number of the body corporate.

(2) In the case of a business name that is registered in relation to more than one person, service of such a document on any one of them is taken to be service on all of them.

(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 a person in any other manner.