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INTERPRETATION ACT 1987 - SECT 76
Service by post
76 Service by post
(1) If an Act or instrument authorises or requires any document to be served
by post (whether the word "serve", "give" or "send" or any other word is
used), service of the document-- (a) may be effected by properly addressing,
prepaying and posting a letter containing the document, and
(b) in Australia
or in an external Territory--is, unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt is
adduced to the contrary, taken to have been effected on the seventh
working day after the letter was posted, and
(c) in another place--is, unless
evidence sufficient to raise doubt is adduced to the contrary, taken to have
been effected at the time when the letter would have been delivered in the
ordinary course of post.
(2) In this section--
"working day" means a day that is not-- (a) a Saturday or Sunday, or
(b) a
public holiday or a bank holiday in the place to which the letter was
addressed.
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