Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Where, under this Act, a document or notice is required or permitted to be given to or served on a person, the document or notice may be given or served--
(a) where the person is a natural person--by giving it to or serving it personally on the person or by sending it by post to the person at the person's usual or last known place of abode or business;
(b) where the person is a body corporate--by leaving it at or sending it by post to the registered office of the body corporate.
(2) In subsection (1)--
registered office means--
(a) the office of the body corporate that is the registered office or principal office under the law of the State or Territory by or under which the body corporate is incorporated; or
(b) where the body corporate is not incorporated in Australia--an office registered under the law of a State or Territory as a registered office of the body corporate; or
(c) in the case of a body corporate that has no such registered office or principal office--the principal place of business of the body corporate in the State or, if it has no place of business in the State, its principal place of business in Australia.
(3) Where the rights and obligations of a person under this Act have been assigned or have passed by operation of law to another person, a document or notice given to or served on the first mentioned person at the person's usual or last known place of abode or business shall be deemed to have been given to or served on the second mentioned person unless the person giving or serving the document or notice had, before the person gave or served the document or notice, been given notice in writing that the rights and obligations of the first mentioned person had been assigned or had so passed to the second mentioned person.