Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00472:section:160
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2021C00472
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 160
Character Range: 179543–180400

160  Postal articles
 (1) It is presumed (unless evidence sufficient to raise doubt about the presumption is adduced) that a postal article sent by prepaid post addressed to a person at a specified address in Australia or in an external Territory was received at that address on the seventh working day after having been posted.
 (2) This section does not apply if:
 (a) the proceeding relates to a contract; and
 (b) all the parties to the proceeding are parties to the contract; and
 (c) subsection (1) is inconsistent with a term of the contract.
 (3) In this section:
working day means a day that is not:
 (a) a Saturday or a Sunday; or
 (b) a public holiday or a bank holiday in the place to which the postal article was addressed.
Note: Section 182 gives this section a wider application in relation to postal articles sent by a Commonwealth agency.