New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 392

392 Service of notices and other documents

(1) A notice or other document that is authorised or required by this Act or the regulations to be served on or given to any person may be served or given by--

(a) in the case of a natural person--

(i) delivering it to the person personally, or

(ii) sending it by post to the address specified by the person for the giving or service of documents or, if no such address is specified, the residential or business address of the person last known to the person giving or serving the document, or

(iii) sending it by electronic transmission to an address or location nominated by the person (in correspondence or otherwise) as an address or location for the giving or service of documents of that kind, or

(b) in the case of a body corporate--

(i) leaving it with a person apparently of or above the age of 16 years at, or by sending it by post to, the head office, a registered office or a principal office of the body corporate or to an address specified by the body corporate for the giving or service of documents, or

(ii) sending it by electronic transmission to an address or location nominated by the body corporate (in correspondence or otherwise) as an address or location for the giving or service of documents of that kind.

(2) A notice or other document that is authorised or required to be served on or given to the occupier of any particular premises may, if addressed to the occupier of the premises (either by name or as the occupier), be given or served--

(a) by delivering the document or a true copy of it to some person on those premises who is apparently over the age of 16 years, or

(b) if there is no person on those premises who can be given or served with the document, by fixing the document or copy to some conspicuous part of the premises.

(3) Nothing in this section affects the operation of any provision of a law or of the rules of a court authorising a document to be served on a person in any other manner.