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PETROLEUM (OFFSHORE) ACT 1982 - SECT 136
Service
136 Service
(1) A document required or permitted by this Act to be served on a person
other than the Minister or a corporation shall be served: (a) by delivering
the document to that person personally,
(b) by prepaying and posting the
document as a letter addressed to that person at the person's last known place
of residence or business or, if the person is carrying on business at 2 or
more places, at 1 of those places,
(c) by leaving the document at the last
known place of residence of that person with some person apparently a resident
of that place and apparently not less than 16 years of age, or
(d) by leaving
the document at the last known place of business of that person or, if the
person is carrying on business at 2 or more places, at 1 of those places, with
some person apparently in the service of that person and apparently not less
than 16 years of age.
(2) A document required or permitted by this Act to be
served on the Minister shall be served: (a) by prepaying and posting the
document as a letter addressed to the Minister at a place of business of the
Minister, or
(b) by leaving it at a place of business of the Minister with
some person apparently employed in connexion with the business of the Minister
and apparently not less than 16 years of age.
(3) A document required by this
Act to be served on a person, being a corporation, shall be served: (a) by
prepaying and posting the document as a letter addressed to the corporation at
its last known place of business or, if it is carrying on business at 2 or
more places, at 1 of those places, or
(b) by leaving it at that place, or at
1 of those places, with some person apparently in the service of the
corporation and apparently not less than 16 years of age.
(4) Where a
document required by this Act to be served is posted as a letter in accordance
with this section, service shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to
have been effected at the time at which the letter would have been delivered
in the ordinary course of post.
(5) Where there are 2 or more
registered holders of a title or special prospecting authority, those
registered holders may, by notice in writing signed by each of them and served
on the Minister, nominate one of the registered holders as being the person on
whom documents relating to the title or special prospecting authority that are
required or permitted by this Act to be served may be served.
(6) Subject to
subsections (7) and (8), where: (a) a document relating to a title or
special prospecting authority is required or permitted by this Act to be
served on the registered holder,
(b) there are 2 or more registered holders
of the title or special prospecting authority, and
(c) the document is served
on a person in respect of whom a nomination under subsection (5) is in force
in relation to the title or special prospecting authority,
the document shall
be deemed to have been served on each of those registered holders.
(7) Where:
(a) a person has been nominated under subsection (5) in relation to a title or
special prospecting authority, and
(b) one of the registered holders of the
title or special prospecting authority, by notice in writing served on the
Minister, revokes that nomination,
that nomination ceases to be in force.
(8)
Where: (a) a person has been nominated under subsection (5) in relation to a
title or special prospecting authority, and
(b) the person so nominated
ceases to be one of the registered holders of the title or
special prospecting authority,
that nomination ceases to be in force.
(9) In
this section:
"title" means a permit, lease, licence, pipeline licence or access authority.
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