New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (OFFSHORE) ACT 1982 - SECT 136

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.