New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 134

134 Service of documents

(1) Service of a document authorised or required to be served on any person for the purposes of this Act may be effected:

(a) on a natural person, by delivering it to the person personally or by leaving it at, or sending it by pre-paid post to, the person’s last known residential or business address, or

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

or in any other way in which service could have been effected in the absence of this section.

(2) If a landholder on whom a document is authorised or required to be served is absent from the State or cannot, after diligent inquiry, be found or identified, and that person’s place of residence or business cannot, after diligent inquiry, be ascertained, the document may be served by affixing it on some conspicuous part of the land.

(3) If a person has more than one place of business, service may be effected at any of those places.

(4) Service of a document on a person may be effected by service, in any manner permitted by this section, on the person’s agent duly appointed and notified in accordance with the regulations made under this Act.

(5) Nothing in this section prevents service of a document from being effected by facsimile transmission or other electronic means, or by the use of the facilities of a document exchange, but the burden of establishing that a document so despatched was actually received, and of establishing its time of receipt, lies on the person seeking to establish it.