Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

COMMON BOUNDARIES ACT 1981 - SECT 18

    (1)     A document that is required by this division to be served on the occupier of a parcel of land may be served—

        (a)     if the occupier is the Territory—by sending the notice by post to the director-general; and

        (b)     if the occupier is the Commonwealth—by sending the notice by post to the secretary to the Commonwealth department for the time being responsible for the administration of national land; and

        (c)     in any other case—by sending the document by post addressed to the occupier at the occupier's address last known to the person sending the document or at the parcel of land.

    (2)     If 2 or more people are the occupiers of a parcel of land, a document that has been served on one of them is taken to have been served on all of them.

    (3)     This section does not limit the operation of any other territory law (including the rules

) that authorises or requires service of a document otherwise than as provided under this section.