Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Act 2006

Administration, appeals, and miscellaneous provisions - Miscellaneous provisions, consequential amendments, and repeals

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

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"How the Board and others give you important documents in writing"

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You need to get notices or documents from the Board, a Board member, the Registrar, or an investigator. They must give you these in writing. They can deliver it to you in person, send it by facsimile or email, or post it to your address. They can also give it to you in another way if a District Court Judge says they can. If they post it to you, it is considered given to you when it would normally arrive. They just need to prove they posted it to the right address. If you are not in New Zealand, they can give notices to your agent here. It is the same as if they gave it to you. If someone has died, they can give notices to their personal representative. This is how it works unless the Act says something different.

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Part 4Administration, appeals, and miscellaneous provisions
Miscellaneous provisions, consequential amendments, and repeals

170Notice and service of documents by Board, member, Registrar, or investigator

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—
by delivering it personally or by an agent (for example, a courier) to the person; or
by sending it by facsimile or email to the person’s facsimile number or email address; or
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
in any other manner a District Court Judge directs.

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