s 187 Electronic service
187.—(1) The Authority may provide an electronic service for the service of any document that is required or authorised by this Act to be served on any person. (2) For the purposes of the electronic service, the Authority may assign to any person —(a) an authentication code; and (b) an account with the electronic service. (3) Despite section 186, where a person has given consent for any document to be served on the person through the electronic service —(a) the Authority may serve the document on that person by transmitting an electronic record of the document to that person’s account with the electronic service; and (b) the document is treated as having been served at the time when an electronic record of the document enters the person’s account with the electronic service. (4) In this section —“account with the electronic service”, in relation to any person, means a computer account within the electronic service that is assigned by the Authority to the person for the storage and retrieval of electronic records relating to the person; “authentication code”, in relation to any person, means an identification or identifying code, a password or any other authentication method or procedure that is assigned to the person for the purposes of identifying and authenticating the access to and use of the electronic service by the person; “document” includes a notice and an order; “electronic record” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Electronic Transactions Act 2010.