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Evidence (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
160Postal articles
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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
seventhworking day after having been posted.
(2) This section does not apply if:
and
(c) subsection (1) is inconsistent with a term of the contract.
working day means a day that is not:
(a) a Saturday or a Sunday; or
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(b) a public holiday or a bank holiday in the place to which the
postal article was addressed.
Note for section 160
Section 182 of the Commonwealth Act gives section 160 of the Commonwealth
Act a wider application in relation to postal articles sent by a Commonwealth
agency.