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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

7: Miscellaneous provisions, consequential amendments and repeals, and transitional provisions

156   Notice and service of documents




    156 Notice and service of documents

  (1)  Unless this Act provides otherwise, if a provision of this Act requires
or authorises any notice or other document, or any notification, to be given to
a person, the notice, document, or notification must be given in writing to the
person---

      (a)  by delivering it personally or by an agent (such as a courier) to
the person; or

      (b)  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

      (c)  in any other manner a District Court Judge directs.

  (2)  In the absence of proof to the contrary, a notice, document, or
notification sent by post to a person in accordance with subsection (1)(b) must
be treated as having been given to 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.

  (3)  If a person is absent from New Zealand, a notice, document, or
notification given to the person's agent in New Zealand in accordance
with subsection (1) must be treated as having been given to him or her.

  (4)  If a person has died, the notice, document, or notification may be
given, in accordance with subsection (1), to his or her personal
representative.
Compare: 1995 No 95 s 137

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