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Food Act 2003
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#### 137 Service of documents
137 Service of documents
> > (1) A document that is authorised or required by this Act or the regulations to be served on any person may be served by any of the following methods—
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> > > (a) in the case of an individual—by personal delivery to the person,
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> > > (b) by post to the address specified by the person for the service of documents of that kind,
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> > > (c) in the case of an individual who has not specified such an address—by post to the residential or business address of the person last known to the person serving the document,
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> > > (d) in the case of a corporation—by post to the registered office or any other office of the corporation or by leaving it at any such office with a person apparently over the age of 16 years,
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> > > (e) by electronic transmission to an address or location specified by the person for the service of documents of that kind,
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> > > (f) by any other method authorised by the regulations for the service of documents of that kind.
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> > (2) Nothing in this section affects the operation of any provision of a law or of the rules of a court authorising a document to be served on a person by any other method.
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> > (3) In this section, serve includes give or send.
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> **s 137:** Am 2005 No 98, Sch 1.10 \[2\]; 2007 No 47, Sch 1 \[18\]. Rep 2008 No 5, Sch 1 \[6\]. Ins 2009 No 85, Sch 1 \[7\]. Subst 2018 No 68, Sch 1.13 \[4\]. Am 2022 No 59, Sch 1.17.