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Corporations Act 1989
109YMeaning of service by post
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#### 109Y Meaning of service by post
Where a provision of this Law authorises or requires any document to be served by post, whether the expression serve or the expression give or send or any other expression is used, then:
(a) the service is taken to be effected by properly addressing and posting (under pre‑paid post) the document as a letter to the last known address of the person to be served; and
(b) unless the contrary is proved, the service is taken to have been effected at the time at which the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post.