Tow Truck Act 2023

The person may give the relevant document to the receiver by giving the receiver another document (a communication) stating that—

the relevant document can be viewed on a stated website or other electronic medium; and

the receiver may ask the person for a copy of the relevant document.

Also, if the receiver has given the person a notice stating an electronic address for service, the person may give the relevant document to the receiver by sending to the electronic address—

the relevant document; or

a notice (also a communication) stating the relevant document can be viewed by opening a stated hyperlink.

Examples of an electronic address—

an email address, internet protocol address or digital mailbox address

For subsections (1) and (2)(b), the receiver is taken to have been given the relevant document only if, by accessing the website or other electronic medium, or opening the hyperlink, the receiver would have been able to view the relevant document—

at the time the communication was given or sent (the sending time); and

for a period after the sending time that, in the circumstances and having regard to the receiver’s functions for the document, was reasonable to allow the receiver to—

access the website or other electronic medium, or open the hyperlink; and

read or copy the relevant document.

Subsection (3) applies whether or not the receiver viewed the website or other electronic medium, or opened the hyperlink.

Subsection (6) applies if the receiver is given a communication under subsection (1) and asks the person for a copy of the relevant document in hard copy or electronic form.

The person must, as soon as practicable after the request is made, give the receiver a copy of the relevant document in the requested form.

This section does not limit the Acts Interpretation Act 1954, section 39 or the Electronic Transactions (Queensland) Act 2001.