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RTA Residential Tenancies Act

RTA · Consumer Protection Act

Part 15 — Administration and Appeals Administration

177 Service of documents

Current to 2026-07-14 · Official PDF

(1) If this Act requires the Minister or the Director to serve a
person with a document or to give notice of a document to a
person, the service or notice may, subject to the regulations under
section 158.5, be given
(a) personally,
(b) by ordinary mail,
(b.1) by recorded mail, or
(c) if the person requests that service or notice be given by
electronic means that results in a printed copy of the
document being received by the person, by the electronic
means.
(2) If service or notice is given to a person by ordinary mail under
subsection (1)(b), it must be sent to the last address for the person
on the Director's records, and any service or notice given by
ordinary mail under subsection (1)(b) is deemed to have been
received 7 days after it is mailed unless
(a) the document is returned by a person who is not the
addressee, or
(b) the document was not receive d by the addressee, the proof
of which lies on the addressee.
RSA 2000 cF-2 s177;2012 c7 s1;2018 c11 s7