Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Credit (Administration) Act 1984 - SECT 86

PART 6 MISCELLANEOUS

Giving of notices etc.

86. Giving of notices etc.



(1) Where, under this Act or Part 4 of the Consumer Credit (Victoria) Code, a
document or notice is required or permitted to be given to or served on a
person, the document or notice may be given or served-

   (a)  where the person is a natural person, by giving it to or serving it
        personally on the person or by sending it by post to the person at his
        usual or last known place of abode or business; or

   (b)  where the person is a body corporate, by leaving it at or sending it
        by post to the registered office of the body corporate.

(2) In subsection (1), registered office means-

   (a)  the office of the body corporate that is the registered office or
        principal office in accordance with the law of the State or Territory
        by or under which the body corporate is incorporated;

   (b)  where the body corporate is not incorporated in Australia, an office
        registered under the law of a State or Territory as a registered
        office of the body corporate; or

   (c)  in the case of a body corporate that has no such registered office or
        principal office, the principal place of business of the body
        corporate in Victoria, or, if it has no place of business in Victoria,
        its principal place of business in Australia.

(3) Where the rights and obligations of a person under this Act have been
assigned or have passed by operation of law to another person, a document or
notice given to or served on the first-mentioned person at his usual or last
known place of abode or of business shall be deemed to have been given to or
served on the second-mentioned person unless the person giving or serving the
document or notice had before he gave or served the document or notice been
given notice in writing that the rights and obligations of the first-mentioned
person had been assigned or had so passed to the second-mentioned person.



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