Legal Services Act 2000

114 Service of notices, etc

• (1) Any notice or other communication required to be given to any person under this Act or any regulation made under it may be given by delivering it to that person, and may be delivered—

  • (a) personally; or

  • (b) by leaving it at that person's usual or last known place of residence in New Zealand; or

  • (c) by posting it in a letter addressed to the person at his or her usual or last known place of residence in New Zealand.

  (2) If a notice or other communication is sent to a person by post, then, in the absence of proof to the contrary, the notice or other communication is deemed to have been given to that person when the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post.

  (3) In proving delivery, it is sufficient to prove that the letter was properly addressed and posted.

  Compare: SR 1991/293 r 60