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Accident Compensation Act 2001

Miscellaneous provisions - General notification provision

307: How documents given or information notified

You could also call this:

“How to give documents or share information under this law”

This law talks about how you should give documents or tell people information when the Accident Compensation Act 2001 says you need to. You should choose the way that you think is most likely to make sure the person gets the document.

You can give a document in these ways:

  1. Hand it to the person yourself
  2. Send it in the mail to their usual address
  3. Send it by fax or electronically (like email)
  4. Give it to them in a way they have agreed to

If you’re giving a document to a company, you need to take it to their office during work hours.

If you post a document, the law assumes the person got it when they would normally get mail. To prove you sent it, you just need to show it was addressed correctly. The law assumes you posted it on the date written on the document unless someone can prove otherwise.

If you send a document electronically, the law assumes the person got it the day after you sent it, unless someone can prove otherwise. If your computer shows the message was received, that’s enough proof you sent it.

Remember, there are some exceptions to these rules. Section 52 of this Act might say something different, or other parts of the Act might have specific instructions for certain documents.

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Part 9 Miscellaneous provisions
General notification provision

307How documents given or information notified

  1. This section applies when—

  2. this Act requires a document to be given to a person; or
    1. this Act requires a person to be notified of any information, and references in this section to a document being given must be applied accordingly.

      1. A document that this Act requires to be given to a person must be given by the method in subsection (3) that the person required to give the document considers is most likely to ensure that the document reaches the person.

      2. The methods by which a document may be given are—

      3. personally delivering it to the person; or
        1. posting it to a usual address of the person; or
          1. sending it to the person by fax or some other electronic means; or
            1. providing it to the person in a manner approved by the person.

              1. A document personally delivered under subsection (3)(a) must, if delivered to a corporate body, be delivered to the corporate body's offices during working hours.

              2. A document posted under subsection (3)(b) is deemed to have been delivered to the person at the time it would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post. For the purposes of proving delivery,—

              3. it is sufficient to prove that the document was properly addressed; and
                1. the document is presumed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to have been posted on the day on which it was dated.

                  1. A document sent under subsection (3)(c) is deemed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to be delivered on the day after the day on which it is sent, and it is sufficient proof of sending that a correct machine-generated acknowledgement of receipt exists.

                  2. This section is subject to section 52 and to any provision of this Act that specifically provides how a document is to be given.