Evidence Act 1995
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160 Postal articles
(1) It is presumed (unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt about the presumption is adduced) that a postal article sent by prepaid post addressed to a person at a specified address in Australia or in an external Territory was received at that address on the seventh working day after having been posted. (2) This section does not apply if: (a) the proceeding relates to a contract; and (b) all the parties to the proceeding are parties to the contract; and (c) subsection (1) is inconsistent with a term of the contract. (3) In this section:
working day means a day that is not:
(a) a Saturday or a Sunday; or
(b) a public holiday or a bank holiday in the place to which the postal article was addressed.
Note: Section 182 gives this section a wider application in relation to postal articles sent by a Commonwealth agency.