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Electricity Act 1992

Administration - General provisions

156B: Notice and service of documents by Board, member, Registrar, or investigator

You could also call this:

“How the Board and others can send you important papers”

If the Board, a Board member, the Registrar, or an investigator needs to give you a notice or document, they must do it in writing. They can give it to you in a few different ways:

  1. They can hand it to you in person or have someone else (like a courier) deliver it to you.

  2. They can send it to you by fax or email.

  3. They can mail it to you at your home or work address.

  4. They can use any other way that a District Court Judge says is okay.

If they send it to you by mail, it’s considered delivered when it would normally arrive in the post. To prove they sent it, they just need to show that they addressed the letter correctly and put it in the mail.

If you’re not in New Zealand, they can give the notice or document to someone who represents you in New Zealand, and it will count as if they gave it to you.

If you have died, they can give the notice or document to the person who is handling your estate.

These rules apply unless another part of this Act says something different.

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Part 13 Administration
General provisions

156BNotice and service of documents by Board, member, Registrar, or investigator

  1. If a provision of this Act requires or authorises any notice or other document, or any notification, to be given to, or served on, a person by the Board, a member of the Board, the Registrar, or an investigator, that notice, document, or notification must be given in writing to the person—

  2. by delivering it personally or by an agent (for example, a courier) to the person; or
    1. by sending it by facsimile or email to the person's facsimile number or email address; or
      1. by sending it by pre-paid post addressed to the person at the person's usual or last known place of residence or business; or
        1. in any other manner a District Court Judge directs.

          1. In the absence of proof to the contrary, a notice, document, or notification sent by post to a person in accordance with subsection (1)(c) must be treated as having been given to, or served on, the person when it would have been delivered in the ordinary course of the post; and, in proving the delivery, it is sufficient to prove that the letter was properly addressed and posted.

          2. If a person is absent from New Zealand, a notice, document, or notification given to, or served on, the person's agent in New Zealand in accordance with subsection (1) must be treated as having been given to, or served on, him or her.

          3. If a person has died, the notice, document, or notification may be given or served, in accordance with subsection (1), to or on his or her personal representative.

          4. This section applies unless a provision of this Act provides otherwise.

          Notes
          • Section 156B: inserted, on , by section 19 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).