Schedule 3: Amendments of remaining provisions of the Companies Act 1985 relating to offences Part 37: Companies: Supplementary Provisions Section 1140: Service of documents on directors, secretaries and others
1459.This section is a new provision. It ensures that the address on the public record for any director or secretary is effective for the service of documents on that person. Subsection (3) provides that the address is effective even if the document has no bearing on the person’s responsibilities as director or secretary. This provision also applies to the address on the public record of various other persons for whom the Act requires an address on the public record. Subsection (7) similarly makes clear that this section is supplemented by the “company communications provisions” referenced by section 1143.