New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROADS ACT 1993 - SECT 254

254 Service of documents on persons generally

(1) Any document that is authorised or required by or under this Act to be given to or served on any person (other than a corporation) may be given or served--

(a) personally, or

(b) by means of a letter addressed to the person and sent by post to the person's address, or

(c) by means of a letter addressed to the person and left at the person's address with a person who appears to be of or above the age of 16 years and to reside at that address.

(2) Any document that is authorised or required by or under this Act to be given to or served on any person (being a corporation) may be given or served--

(a) by means of a letter addressed to the corporation and sent by post to the address of any of its registered offices, or

(b) by means of a letter addressed to the corporation and left at the address of any of the corporation's registered offices with a person who appears to be of or above the age of 16 years and to be employed at that address.

(3) Without limiting subsections (1) and (2), any document that is authorised or required by or under this Act to be given to or served on the owner or occupier of land may be given or served by means of a letter addressed to the owner or occupier and affixed to some conspicuous part of the land.

(4) Any direction or notice that is required to be served on the owner or occupier of land is taken to be duly served if, where there is more than one owner or occupier, it is served on any one of the owners or occupiers.

Note : Section 103 of the Native Title (New South Wales) Act 1994 makes special provision with respect to the service of notices on native title holders where there is no approved determination of native title. Relevant provisions are also made by the Commonwealth Native Title Act.