Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A notification required by this Act to be given to any person shall be taken to have been duly given if--
(a) it is served personally on the person to whom it is directed or, in the case of a notification directed to a married couple, it is served personally on 1 of them or, in either case, on a person authorised by a person to be served, either generally or in a particular case to accept service of documents on the person's behalf;
(b) it is left at the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives it;
(c) it is sent by post to the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives it.
(2) A notification shall be deemed to have been received by the person to whom it is directed--
(a) where it has been given in the manner referred to in subsection (1)(a), on the day it is served in accordance with that paragraph;
(b) where it has been given in the manner referred to in subsection (1)(b), on the day next following the day it is left at the place specified therein;
(c) where it has been given in the manner referred to in subsection (1)(c), unless the contrary is proved, at the time when it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.