(1) Where any notice has to be given or any document has to be served under this Act, it may be given or served by—
(a) delivering it to the person to whom it has to be given or on whom it has to be served; or
(b) leaving it at the usual or last known place of abode or address for service in New Zealand of that person; or
(c) sending it by post in a registered letter addressed to that person at that person's usual or last known place of abode or address for service in New Zealand.
(2) Where a notice or document is sent by post in the manner described in subsection (1)(c), it shall be deemed to have been given or served at the time at which the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post.
Compare: 1973 No 37 s 32