New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MARITIME SERVICES ACT 1935 - SECT 30A

30A Service of notices and legal processes

(1) Any notice required to be given under any Act, by-law, regulation or rule with the administration of which the Board is charged may be sufficiently served by posting the same duly stamped and addressed to the person to whom such notice is directed at the person’s place of abode or business last known to the Board, or in the manner herein prescribed for service of any summons or process.

(2) Any summons or other process in any legal proceeding under any such Act, by-law, regulation or rule may be sufficiently served by delivering the same:

(a) personally to the person to be served, or

(b) at the person’s place of abode or business last known to the Board, or

(c) on board any vessel to which the person belongs, and accompanied with a statement of the purport thereof to the person being or appearing to be in command or charge of such vessel.

(3) The service of any notice, summons or process under this section may be proved in any legal proceedings either by the oath or by the affidavit of the person by whom it was served or otherwise.