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206 Service
(1) If this Act requires a notice to be served on or given to a person, the
requirement is satisfied if the notice is:
(a) served personally; or
(b) sent by registered or certified post or by facsimile:
(i) to the address for service noted in the land register;
(ii) in the case of a corporation – either to that address or to
the address of the corporation's registered office or
principal place of business for the purposes of the
Corporations Act 2001; or
(iii) if the address or addresses authorised by
subparagraphs (i) and (ii) appear to the Registrar-
General to be unsatisfactory – to any other address that
he or she may consider appropriate; or
(ba) sent by electronic communication in accordance with the
requirements of the Electronic Transactions (Northern
Territory) Act 2000; or
(c) served in a manner specified in the Registrar-General's
directions; or
(d) published in a manner specified in the Registrar-General's
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(2) The address for service noted in the land register may be a post
office box and may, in the case of a natural person, be a business
address.
(3) The Supreme Court may order that a notice required or permitted to
be served on a person under this Act be served in the way directed
by the Supreme Court.
(4) The Supreme Court may make an order under subsection (3) if, for
example, the person:
(a) is not known;
(b) cannot be found and has no known agent; or
(c) is dead and has no personal representative.
(5) The Supreme Court may dispense with service of a notice required
or permitted to be served on a person under this Act if it is satisfied
that it is appropriate to dispense with service of the notice.