Queensland Consolidated Acts

MAINTENANCE ACT 1965 - SECT 114

114 Service of documents etc.

(1) Any document required or permitted by this Act to be served on a person shall, unless otherwise provided by this Act, be served as if it were a summons and the provisions of section 113 (1) shall apply accordingly.

(2) If the court, on evidence on oath or by affidavit, is satisfied that from any cause any summons or other document required or permitted by this Act to be served on a person has not been and can not promptly be served on that person, the court may make such order for substituted or other service of the summons or other document or for the substitution for service of notice by advertisement or otherwise as to the court seems just.

(3) Any notice (not being a document referred to in subsection (1) ) required or permitted by this Act to be given to a person may, unless otherwise provided by this Act, be given to that person—

(a) by serving it on that person as though it were a summons under this Act; or

(b) by sending it to that person by registered post at the person’s usual or last-known place of address or business.