226Service of documents

226 Service of documents

[Section 226 Substituted by No. 59 of 2016, s. 68, Applied:01 Jul 2017]

(1)  A notice or other document that is required to be given or served under this Act is effectively given or served if –

(a) in the case of a natural person who is –

(i) a voluntary inpatient; or

(ii) a forensic patient; or

(iii) an involuntary patient who is being detained in an approved facility under the authority of an assessment order or a treatment order –

the document is given to the person; or

(b) in the case of any other natural person, the document is –

(i) given to the person; or

(ii) left at, or sent by post to, the person's postal or residential address or place or address of business or employment last known to the server of the document; or

(iii) faxed to the person's fax number; or

(iv) emailed to the person's email address; or

(c) in the case of any other person, it is –

(i) left at, or sent by post to, the person's principal or registered office or principal place of business; or

(ii) faxed to the person's fax number; or

(iii) emailed to the person's email address.

(2)  For the purposes of this section –

give, in relation to a notice or other document, includes cause the notice or other document to be given.