Interpretation Act Amendment Act 1957 (WA)

No. 7.] Interpretation. [1957.

INTERPRETATION.

6° Elizabeth II., No. VII.

No. 7 of 1957.

AN ACT to amend the Interpretation Act, 1918- 1954, so as to Authorise Service of certain Documents by Certified Mail.

[Assented to 29th August, 1957.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Interpreta-

tion Act Amendment Act, 1957.

Vol. 6 of The

Reprinted	(2) In this Act the Interpretation Act, 1918-1957,
Acts.
Approved for

reprint,	Act No. 30 of 1918 as reprinted with amendments
2nd Sept.,
1953.	to and including Act No. 8 of 1948 incorporated

1957.] Interpretation. [No. 7.

pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, and as further amended by Act No. 73 of 1954,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act

may be cited as the Interpretation Act, 1918-1957.

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2. Section thirty-one of the principal Act is amended.

amended by adding after subsection (3) the

following subsections:

(4) Where by any Act, regulation, rule, or by-law, service of any document is permitted or

required to be effected by registered post, then

if the document is eligible and acceptable for

transmission as certified mail pursuant to

As tocertified mail, see

regulations made under the Post and Telegraph

Postal

Regulations,

Act, 1901, of the Commonwealth Parliament or

Part XIIIA.,

S.R. 1956.

under any Act passed by that Parliament in

No. 67,

amendment of or substitution for that Act, the

Common-

wealth

service of the document may be effected either

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by registered post or by certified mail.

The provisions of subsection (3) or sub-

section (4) of this section do not derogate from

or otherwise affect

(5)

Cf. . No. 11 of

(a)	the provisions of any Act, regulation,	1936, s. 2.
rule or by-law which require the pro- duction of an acknowledgment signed by a person to whom a document was addressed, to the effect that the docu- ment was delivered to that person; or
(b)	the provisions of section three of this Act.