Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Service of any summons or process in any legal proceedings under this Part on the owner or the owners of a regulated ship may be effected:
(a) by serving it personally on the owner or on all or any of the owners, as the case may be; or
(b) if an owner who is to be served is a body corporate--on a director, secretary or other officer of the body corporate; or
(c) by serving it personally on an agent of the owner of the regulated ship; or
(d) if an agent who is to be served is a body corporate--on a director, secretary or other officer of the body corporate; or
(e) by serving it on the master of the regulated ship.
(2) Where there is more than one owner of a regulated ship, service on any of the owners is taken to be, for the purposes of this Act, service on all of the owners.
(3) Service of any summons or process in any legal proceedings under this Part on a master of a regulated ship may be effected by serving it personally on the master.
(4) If for any reason (including the absence of the master from the regulated ship) it is not practicable to serve the summons or process on the master personally, service may be effected by delivering it to any person on board the regulated ship who appears to be an officer of the regulated ship.
(5) If it is not reasonably practicable to serve a summons or process in accordance with the preceding provisions, the summons or process is taken to have been served on the person or persons to whom it is issued if the contents are transmitted to the regulated ship concerned by any means and receipt of the transmission is acknowledged by a person on board the regulated ship.