181Service by post

181 Service by post If a notice authorised or required to be served (whether the word "deliver", "give", "notify", "send" or "serve" or another expression is used) on a person is served by post, service of the notice— (a) may be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and posting a letter containing the document; and (b) in Australia or in an external Territory—is, unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt is adduced to the contrary, taken to have been effected on the fourth day after the letter was posted; and (c) in another place—is, unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt is adduced to the contrary, taken to have been effected at the time when the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of the post. Pt 6 Div. 4 (Heading and s. 182) inserted by No. 37/2019 s. 15. Division 4—False or misleading information S. 182 inserted by No. 37/2019 s. 15.