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136: Service of documents
or “This explains different ways to send important papers to landlords and tenants, like giving them in person or sending by mail.”
You could also call this:

“How to count days when the law says you have to wait”

When the law says you need to be given notice about something and tells you how long you have to do something after that, or when something will change, here’s how you figure out the time:

You start counting the day after you get the notice. The law assumes you got the notice when it says you did in section 136.

The time ends at the end of the last day of the period. For example, if you have 21 days to do something, you count 21 days starting from the day after you got the notice, and you have until the end of that last day to do it.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions

136ACalculation of periods

  1. Where this Act requires notice to be given of any thing and prescribes a following period within which, or on the expiry of which, a thing is required or permitted to be done, or a change in the parties’ rights, obligations, interests, or status is to take effect, the period—

  2. commences on the first day after the notice is given or deemed to be given under section 136; and
    1. ends with the close of the last day of the period.

      Notes
      • Section 136A: inserted, on , by section 85 of the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2010 (2010 No 95).