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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Miscellaneous provisions - Service of documents

113: Service of documents

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"How to give someone official documents for the Fast-track Approvals Act 2024"

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When you need to give someone a document for the Fast-track Approvals Act 2024, you can serve it to them in different ways. If the person has given you their email address to use for this matter, you must send the document to that email address. If they have not given you an email address, you can give the document to them in person, leave it at their home or work, or send it to them by post.

If you are serving a document to start or continue a court case, the court might have special rules for how to do this. The Electronic Courts and Tribunals Act 2016 still applies, even if you are serving documents under the Fast-track Approvals Act 2024. If you need to serve a document to a Minister of the Crown, you can serve it to the chief executive of their department instead.

When you serve a document to a company or organisation, you can give it to one of their officers or leave it at their registered office. If you are serving a document to a partnership, you can give it to one of the partners. However, for some partnerships, section 30 of the Partnership Law Act 2019 applies to serving notices.

If you send a document by post, it is assumed to have been received by the person when it would normally have been delivered. You can also serve documents to Crown organisations in special ways, such as by delivering them to their head office or sending them to a specified email address.

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Miscellaneous provisions: Service of documents

113Service of documents

  1. If a notice or other document is to be served on a person for the purposes of this Act,—

  2. if the person has specified an electronic address as an address for service for the matter to which the document relates and has not requested a method of service listed in paragraph (b), the document must be served by sending it to the electronic address:
    1. if the person has not specified an electronic or other address as an address for service or if the person has requested any of the following methods of service, the document may be served by the requested method or any of the following methods:
      1. delivering it to the person:
        1. leaving it at the person's usual or last known place of residence or business or at the address specified by the person in any notice, application, or other document given under this Act:
          1. sending it by post to the person's usual or last known place of residence or business or to the address specified by the person in any notice, application, or other document given under this Act:
            1. complying with a means of service prescribed in regulations.

            2. However, if the document is to be served on a person to commence, or in the course of, court proceedings, subsection (1) does not apply if the court, whether expressly or in its rules or practices, requires a different method of service.

            3. Nothing in subsection (1) overrides the provisions of the Electronic Courts and Tribunals Act 2016.

            4. If a notice or other document is to be served on a Minister of the Crown for the purposes of this Act, service on the chief executive of the appropriate department in accordance with subsection (1) is to be treated as service on the Minister.

            5. If a notice or other document is to be served on a body (whether incorporated or not) for the purposes of this Act, service on an officer of the body, or on the registered office of the body, in accordance with subsection (1) is to be treated as service on the body.

            6. If a notice or other document is to be served on a partnership for the purposes of this Act, service on any one of the partners in accordance with subsections (1) and (5) is to be treated as service on the partnership.

            7. However, in relation to any partnership that is a firm under the Partnership Law Act 2019, section 30 of that Act applies in relation to service of notices under this section.

            8. Despite subsection (1), if a notice or other document is to be served on a Crown organisation for the purposes of this Act, it may be served—

            9. by delivering it at the organisation's head office or principal place of business; or
              1. by sending it to the electronic address that the organisation has specified for its head office or principal place of business; or
                1. by a method agreed between the organisation and the person serving the notice or document.

                  1. If a notice or other document is sent by post to a person in accordance with this section, it is to be treated, in the absence of proof to the contrary, as having been received by the person at the time when the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of the post.

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