120Service of documents by Secretary

120 Service of documents by Secretary

(1) A document authorised or required to be served on or given to a person by the Secretary for the purposes of this Act may be served on or given to the person—

(a) personally; or

(b) by leaving it at the last address of the person known to the Secretary (including, in the case of a body corporate, the registered office or a business address of the body corporate); or

(c) by post addressed to the person at the last address of the person known to the Secretary (including, in the case of a body corporate, the registered office or a business address of the body corporate); or

(d) by a means indicated by the person as being an available means of service (such as by delivering it, addressed to the person, to the facilities of a document exchange); or

(e) if the person has given an electronic address as an available means of service, by electronic communication to that electronic address; or

Examples

The following are examples of an electronic address—

• an email address;

• a secure internet site that the person can access to obtain a document;

• a facsimile number;

• a mobile phone number.

(f) by a prescribed means; or

(g) by any means provided for the service of the document by another Act or law.

(2) To avoid doubt, this section applies to the service of any court process in a proceeding to recover any amount under this Act.

(3) If a person (the agent) has actual or apparent authority to accept service of a document on behalf of another, the Secretary may, for the purposes of this Act, serve the document on the agent as if the agent were that other person.

(4) Service of a document on a member of a partnership, or on a member of the committee of management of an unincorporated association or other body of persons, is taken, for the purposes of this Act, to constitute service of the document on each member of the partnership, or on each member of the association or other body of persons.