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### 160 Postal articles
> > (1) [*\[Section 160 Subsection (1) amended by No. 29 of 2018, s. 32, Applied:10 Dec 2018\]*](/view/html/inforce/2018-12-10/act-2018-029#GS32@EN) [*\[Section 160 Subsection (1) amended by No. 29 of 2017, Sched. 1, Applied:05 Sep 2017\]*](/view/html/inforce/2017-09-05/act-2017-029#JS1@Ja7@GC1@EN) 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.
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> > (2) This section does not apply if –
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> > > > (a) the proceeding relates to a contract; and
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> > > > (b) all the parties to the proceeding are parties to the contract; and
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> > > > (c) [subsection (1)](#GS160@Gs1@EN) is inconsistent with a term of the contract.
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> > (3) In this section,
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> > > ***working day*** means a day that is not –
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> > > > > (a) a Saturday or a Sunday; or
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> > > > > (b) a public holiday, bank holiday or statutory holiday in the place to which the article was addressed.