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Section 40: Service by post

Interpretation and General Clauses Act · PART V: MISCELLANEOUS

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40. Service by post Where an enactment authorises or requires a document to be served by post, whatever the expression used, the service shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and posting a letter containing the document and be presumed to have been effected at the time when the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.

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