South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts279—Service of documents by councils etc
(1) A document
required or authorised to be served on or given to a person by a council,
council subsidiary, employee of a council or authorised person
(the "serving authority") under this or another Act may be served on or given
to the person—
(a)
personally; or
(b) by
leaving it at the last residential or business address of the person known to
the serving authority (including, in the case of a corporation, the registered
address of the corporation); or
(c) by
post addressed to the person at the last residential or business address of
the person known to the serving authority (including, in the case of a
corporation, the registered address of the corporation); or
(d) by
leaving it in the letter box to which the document could be sent under
paragraph (c); or
(e) by a
means indicated by the person as being an available means of service (such as
by delivering it, addressed to the person, to the facilities of a document
exchange); or
(f) if
the document is to be served on a person as the owner of land, the land is
unoccupied, and the identity or address of the owner is unknown to the
council—by placing the document on a conspicuous part of the land; or
(g) by
any means provided for service of the document by another Act or law.
(2) If a document must
be served on the owner or occupier of land and there is more than one owner or
occupier, it is sufficient if the document is served on any owner or occupier
(and not on all owners or occupiers).
(3) If a person ("the
agent") has actual or ostensible authority to accept service of a document on
behalf of another, the document may be served on the agent as if the agent
were that other person.
(4) In this
section—
"document" includes a notice, order or demand.