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Serious Fraud Office Act 1990

Miscellaneous provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

52: Giving of notices

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"How to give official notices to people or companies"

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You can give a notice to a person by delivering it to them personally. You can also give a notice by delivering it to their home or work, including by facsimile. You can give a notice by sending it by prepaid post to their home or work. When you give a notice to a corporation, you can give it to one of its officers or to its registered office. This is the same as giving the notice to the corporation itself. You can give a notice to a partnership by giving it to one of the partners. If you send a notice by post, it is considered given on the third day after you posted it. This is unless someone can prove it was given on a different day. You need to follow these rules when giving notices for the purposes of this Act.

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Part 4Miscellaneous provisions
Miscellaneous provisions

52Giving of notices

  1. Where a notice or other document is to be given to a person for the purposes of this Act, it may be given—

  2. by delivering it personally to the person; or
    1. by delivering it at the usual or last known place of residence or business of the person, including by facsimile; or
      1. by sending it by prepaid post addressed to the person at the usual or last known place of residence or business of the person.

        1. Where a notice or other document is to be given to a corporation for the purposes of this Act, service on an officer of the corporation, or on the registered office of the corporation, in accordance with subsection (1) shall be deemed to be service on the corporation.

        2. Where a notice or other document is to be given to a partnership for the purposes of this Act, service on any one of the partners in accordance with subsections (1) and (2) shall be deemed to be service on the partnership.

        3. Where a notice or other document is sent by post to a person in accordance with subsection (1)(c), it shall be deemed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to have been given on the third day after the day on which it was posted.