Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1996 No. 263 BANKRUPTCY REGULATIONS - REG 16.01

16.01. (1) Unless the contrary intention appears, where a document is required
or permitted by the Act or these Regulations to be given or sent to, or served
on, a person (other than a person mentioned in regulation 16.02), the document
may be:

   (a)  sent by post, or by a courier service, to the person at his or her
        last-known address; or

   (b)  left, in an envelope or similar packaging marked with the person's
        name and any relevant document exchange number, at a document exchange
        where the person maintains a document exchange facility; or

   (c)  left, in an envelope or similar packaging marked with the person's
        name, at the last-known address of the person; or

   (d)  personally delivered to the person; or

   (e)  sent by facsimile transmission or another mode of electronic
        transmission:

        (i)    to a facility maintained by the person for receipt of
               electronically transmitted documents; or

        (ii)   in such a manner (for example, by electronic mail) that the
               document should, in the ordinary course of events, be received
               by the person.

(2) A document given or sent to, or served on, a person in accordance with
subregulation (1) is taken, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to have
been received by, or served on, the person:

   (a)  in the case of service in accordance with paragraph (1) (a) or (b) -
        when the document would, in the due course of post or business
        practice, as the case requires, be delivered to the person's address
        or document exchange facility; and

   (b)  in the case of service in accordance with paragraph (1) (c), (d) or
        (e) - when the document is left, delivered or transmitted, as the case
        requires.