31—Service and receipt of notices (section 80 of Act)
(1) Every public
sector agency must keep a record of the residential address of each of its
employees and, for that purpose and for the purposes of section 80 of the
Act, an employee must give the public sector agency notice of his or her
current residential address in writing or in some other form approved by the
agency—
(a) when
so required by the agency; and
(b) when
there is any change in the employee's residential address.
(2) In any
proceedings, the date of receipt by an employee of a notice or document
required or authorised to be given to or served on the employee may be proved
by a certificate in writing certifying—
(a) that
the copy of the notice or document on which the certificate is endorsed is a
true copy of the notice or document in question; and
(b) that
the person making the certificate served the notice or document on the
employee personally on the date specified in the certificate, or sent the
notice or document on the date specified in the certificate by post addressed
to the employee at the employee's residential address as last notified under
subregulation (1).
(3) Except where the
Act or these regulations provide that a notice must be given in writing or in
some other form approved by a public sector agency, a notice may be given
directly to an employee by word of mouth or by telephone, telegram, fax or
email.
(4) A notice or
document will be taken to have been given or delivered to a public sector
agency if the notice or document is given or delivered to the employee for the
time being occupying a position or performing duties nominated by the agency
for the purpose of the receipt of such notices or documents.