125Provision of documents, legal process and service

125 Provision of documents, legal process and service

[Section 125 Inserted by No. 17 of 2021, s. 18, Applied:05 Nov 2021]

(1)  A notice, order or other document for the purposes of proceedings may be served on or given to a person or body –

(a) by means of personal service; or

(b) by posting a copy of the notice or document, addressed to the person or body –

(i) to the address for service of the person or body; or

(ii) if there is no address for service in relation to the person or body – to the business address, or residential address, of the person or body, or the business address, or residential address of the person or body that is last-known to the person or body serving the notice or document; or

(c) by leaving a copy of the notice or document, addressed to the person or body –

(i) at the address for service of the person or body; or

(ii) if there is no address for service in relation to the person or body – to the business address, or residential address, of the person or body, or the business address, or residential address, of the person or body that is last-known to the person or body serving the notice or document; or

(d) if the person or body has consented to electronic service by means of a facsimile address, an email address or a mobile phone number specified by the person or body – by transmitting the notice or document, in an electronic format, addressed to the person or body, to that address or number; or

(e) if the person or body is a corporation – by serving a copy of the notice or document on the corporation in any manner by which service of such a notice or document may, by law, be served on the corporation; or

(f) in the manner that the Tribunal, or a registrar, determines in a particular case.

(2)  For the purposes of this Act, a notice, order or other document may be issued, served or executed on a Sunday as well as any other day.

(3)  If a person has provided to the Tribunal, in relation to proceedings or proposed proceedings, a document that contains an email address of the person or is sent to the Tribunal from an email address, the person is taken to have consented to the issue to, or service on, the person of a notice, order or other document relating to the proceedings, by means of it being sent to the email address.