New South Wales Consolidated Acts

REAL PROPERTY ACT 1900 - SECT 135Q

135Q Service of notices

(1) A notice required or permitted by this Part to be given to a person may be given:

(a) to the Registrar-General-by leaving it at, or by sending it by pre-paid post to, any office of the Registrar-General, or

(b) to any other natural person-by delivering it to the person personally or by leaving it at, or by sending it by pre-paid post to, the address of the place of residence or business of the person last known to the Registrar-General, or

(c) to 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

(d) to any person (including the Registrar-General)-by delivering it to the facilities of a document exchange of which the person is a member.

(2) In the case of service by delivery to the facilities of a document exchange, the notice is, unless the contrary is proved, to be taken to have been given on the second business day following the day of delivery of the notice to those facilities.

(3) Nothing in this section:

(a) affects the operation of any other law of the State that authorises the service of a document in any other way, and

(b) affects the power of a court to authorise service of a document in any other way.

(4) In this section, "business day" means any day except Saturday or Sunday or a day that is a public or bank holiday throughout the State.