Bankruptcy Regulations 1996

PART 16 - MISCELLANEOUS  

Division 1 - Provisions concerning documents (including inventories)  

REGULATION 16.01   SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS  

16.01(1)    
Unless the contrary intention appears, where a document is required or permitted by the Act or these Regulations to be given or sent to, or served on, a person (other than a person mentioned in regulation 16.02), the document may be:

(a) sent by post, or by a courier service, to the person at his or her last-known address; or

(b) left, in an envelope or similar packaging marked with the person's name and any relevant document exchange number, at a document exchange where the person maintains a document exchange facility; or

(c) left, in an envelope or similar packaging marked with the person's name, at the last-known address of the person; or

(d) personally delivered to the person; or

(e) sent by facsimile transmission or another mode of electronic transmission:

(i) to a facility maintained by the person for receipt of electronically transmitted documents; or

(ii) in such a manner (for example, by electronic mail) that the document should, in the ordinary course of events, be received by the person.

16.01(2)    
A document given or sent to, or served on, a person in accordance with subregulation (1) is taken, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to have been received by, or served on, the person:

(a) in the case of service in accordance with paragraph (1)(a) or (b) - when the document would, in the due course of post or business practice, as the case requires, be delivered to the person's address or document exchange facility; and

(b) in the case of service in accordance with paragraph (1)(c), (d) or (e) - when the document is left, delivered or transmitted, as the case requires.