Medical Practitioners Act 1995

   137. Notice and service of documents--- (1) Except where this Act
 otherwise provides, where any provision of this Act or of any
 regulations made under this Act requires or authorises any notice or
 other document, or any notification, to be given to a person, the
 notice, document, or notification shall be given in writing to that
 person by---
   (a) Delivering it personally to that person; or
   (b) Sending it by pre-paid post addressed to that person at that
         person's usual or last known place of residence or business; or
   (c) Giving it in such other manner as a District Court Judge may
         direct.

   (2) Every notice, document, or notification sent by post to a person
 in accordance with subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed, in
 the absence of proof to the contrary, to have been given to that person
 at the time at which the letter would have been delivered in the
 ordinary course of the post.

   (3) If a person is absent from New Zealand, a notice, document, or
 notification given to the person's agent in New Zealand, in any manner
 referred to in subsection (1) of this section, shall be deemed to have
 been given to that person.

   (4) If a person is deceased, a notice, document, or notification may
 be given, in any manner referred to in subsection (1) of this section,
 to the person's personal representative.
     Cf. 1988, No. 150, s. 82