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MOTOR ACCIDENTS COMPENSATION ACT 1999 - SECT 222

Service of documents generally

222 Service of documents generally

(cf s 133 MAA)

(1) If by or under this Act a notice or other document is required to be, or may be, given to or served on a person other than the Authority or Commission, that notice or other document may be given to or served on--
(a) an individual--
(i) by delivering it to the individual personally, or
(ii) by leaving it at the individual's place of residence last known to the person who issued the notice or other document with a person who apparently resides there, being a person who has or apparently has attained the age of 16 years, or
(iii) by sending it by prepaid post addressed to the individual at that place of residence, or
(b) a corporation--
(i) by delivering it to a person who is or apparently is concerned in the management of the corporation, or
(ii) by leaving it at the registered office in the State of the corporation with a person apparently employed at that office, being a person who has or apparently has attained the age of 16 years, or
(iii) by sending it by prepaid post addressed to the corporation at that registered office.
(2) A notice or other document that is delivered, left or sent by post in accordance with subsection (1) is taken to have been given or served on its being so delivered or left or, if it is sent by post, is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, prima facie taken to have been given or served when it would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post.



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