Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Travel Agents Act 1986 - SECT 47

Service of documents

47. Service of documents



(1) Where under this Act, a document or notice is required or permitted to be
served on or given to a person, the document or notice may be served or given-

   (a)  if 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 the
        person's usual or last known place of residence or business; or

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

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

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

   (b)  if the corporation is not incorporated in Australia, an office
        registered under the law of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth
        as a registered office of the corporation; or





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

(3) If a document or notice is required or permitted to be served on or given
to the compensation scheme trustees, the document or notice may be served or
given in the manner provided by the compensation scheme.

(4) For the purposes of this Act, if a document or notice is properly
addressed, prepaid and posted as a letter, the document or notice, unless the
contrary is proved, is deemed to have been given to the person to whom it is
addressed at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary
course of post.