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#### 138 Service (1) A document required or permitted by this Act to be served on a person other than the Designated Authority or a corporation shall be served: (a) by delivering the document to that person personally; (b) by prepaying and posting the document as a letter addressed to that person at his last known place of abode or business or, if he is carrying on business at 2 or more places, at one of those places; (c) by leaving the document at the last known place of abode of that person with some person apparently an inmate of that place and apparently not less than 16 years of age; or (d) by leaving the document at the last known place of business of that person or, if he is carrying on business at 2 or more places, at one of those places with some person apparently in the service of that person and apparently not less than 16 years of age. (2) A document required or permitted by this Act to be served on the Designated Authority shall be served: (a) by prepaying and posting the document as a letter addressed to the Designated Authority at a place of business of the Designated Authority; or (b) by leaving it at a place of business of the Designated Authority with some person apparently employed in connection with the business of the Designated Authority and apparently not less than 16 years of age. (2A) A document required or permitted by this Act to be served on the Joint Authority shall be deemed to be duly served if it is served on the Designated Authority. (3) A document required by this Act to be served on a person, being a corporation, shall be served: (a) by prepaying and posting the document as a letter addressed to the corporation at its last known place of business or, if it is carrying on business at 2 or more places, at one of those places; or (b) by leaving it at that place, or at one of those places, with some person apparently in the service of the corporation and apparently not less than 16 years of age. (4) Where a document required by this Act to be served is posted as a letter in accordance with this section, service shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been effected at the time at which the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post.