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387A: Service of documents on directors in legal proceedings
or “How court papers can be given to company directors”
You could also call this:

“How to deliver official documents to a company”

You can serve a document on a company in several ways, as long as it’s not a document for legal proceedings. Here’s how you can do it:

You can use some of the methods mentioned in section 387. These include delivering the document to a person, leaving it at the company’s registered office or address, or sending it by post.

You can also post the document to the company’s registered office or address for service. Another option is to deliver it to a document exchange box that the company is using.

If you prefer, you can send the document by fax to the company’s registered office, address for service, head office, or main place of business.

You can also email the document to an email address that the company uses.

It’s important to note that these rules might change in some situations. You should check section 391(3A) to (3C) to see if there are any special rules that apply.

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Part 22 Miscellaneous

388Service of other documents on companies

  1. A document, other than a document in any legal proceedings, may be served on a company as follows:

  2. by any of the methods set out in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) or paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section 387; or
    1. by posting it to the company's registered office or address for service or delivering it to a box at a document exchange which the company is using at the time; or
      1. by sending it by facsimile machine to a telephone number used for the transmission of documents by facsimile at the company's registered office or address for service or its head office or principal place of business; or
        1. by emailing it to the company at an email address that is used by the company.

          1. Subsection (1) is subject to section 391(3A) to (3C).

          Notes
          • Section 388(1)(c): amended, on , by section 20 of the Companies Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 46).
          • Section 388(1)(d): inserted, on , by section 20 of the Companies Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 46).
          • Section 388(1)(d): amended, on , by section 48 of the Electronic Interactions Reform Act 2017 (2017 No 50).
          • Section 388(2): inserted, on , by section 8 of the Companies Amendment Act (No 2) 2012 (2012 No 60).