Queensland Consolidated Acts

BUILDING UNITS AND GROUP TITLES ACT 1980 - SECT 127

127 Service of documents on body corporate, proprietors and others

(1) A summons or other legal process may be served on a body corporate by leaving it with the chairperson or secretary of the body corporate or with any member of the committee.

(2) A document other than a document referred to in subsection (1) may be served on a body corporate—

(a) by leaving it with any person referred to in subsection (1) or in the receptacle provided by the body corporate in accordance with section 37 (1) (d) ; or

(b) by post on the body corporate at its address recorded on the registered plan or at the address of the parcel.

(3) Subject to this Act, a notice or other document required or authorised by this Act to be served by a referee, a tribunal, a body corporate, a committee or the secretary of a committee on a proprietor, lessee, mortgagee or occupier of a lot may be served—

(a) by leaving it with some person apparently of or above the age of 16 years—

(i) where the person to be served is an occupier of the lot—at the lot; or

(ii) where an address for the service of notices on the person to be served is recorded in the roll—at the address so recorded; or

(b) by post on the person to be served, where an address for the service of notices on that person is recorded in the roll, at the address so recorded; or

(c) in the case of a proprietor—in any manner authorised by the by-laws for the service of notices on proprietors.

(4) Notice under section 44 (5) may be served on a person—

(a) personally or by post; or

(b) by leaving it with a person apparently of or above the age of 16 years at the place of residence or place of business of the firstmentioned person.