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LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 639

Chapter 8 - Miscellaneous Service of notices on local legal practitioners, locally registered foreign lawyers and law practices

(1)  For the purposes of this Act, a notice or other document may be served on, or given to, a local legal practitioner or locally registered foreign lawyer by –
(a) delivering it personally to the practitioner or lawyer; or
(b) sending it by post to the practitioner or lawyer at his or her address for service appearing on the register under section 88 (Register of local practising certificates); or
(c) by faxing it to the practitioner's or lawyer's fax number; or
(d) by emailing it to the practitioner's or lawyer's email address.
(2)  For the purposes of this Act, a notice or other document may be served on, or given to, a law practice by –
(a) delivering it personally to a principal of the law practice; or
(b) sending it by post to the practice at its usual or last known business address; or
(c) leaving it at the practice's usual or last known business address with a person on the premises who is apparently 16 or more years of age and apparently employed there; or
(d) faxing it to the practice's fax number; or
(e) emailing it to the practice's email address.
(3)  A notice or other document may also be served on, or given to, an incorporated legal practice in any other way that service of documents may be effected on a body corporate.



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