Electricity Act 1992

156B Notice and service of documents by Board, member, Registrar, or investigator

• (1) If a provision of this Act requires or authorises any notice or other document, or any notification, to be given to, or served on, a person by the Board, a member of the Board, the Registrar, or an investigator, that notice, document, or notification must be given in writing to the person—

  • (a) by delivering it personally or by an agent (for example, a courier) to the person; or

  • (b) by sending it by facsimile or email to the person's facsimile number or email address; or

  • (c) 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

  • (d) 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)(c) must be treated as having been given to, or served on, 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, or served on, the person's agent in New Zealand in accordance with subsection (1) must be treated as having been given to, or served on, him or her.

  (4) If a person has died, the notice, document, or notification may be given or served, in accordance with subsection (1), to or on his or her personal representative.

  (5) This section applies unless a provision of this Act provides otherwise.

  Section 156B: inserted, on 1 April 2010, by section 19 of the Electricity Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 70).