Road Safety Act 1986

If under this Act or the regulations a notice is required or permitted to be served on any person, the notice may, unless the contrary intention appears, be served in or out of Victoria—

by delivering it personally to the person; or

by leaving it at the usual or last known place of residence or business of the person with a person apparently over the age of sixteen years and apparently residing at that place or (in the case of a place of business) apparently in charge of or employed at that place; or

by sending it by post addressed to the person at the usual or last known place of residence or business of that person; or

if the person has given to the Secretary as his or her address an address that is not his or her place of residence or business, by sending it addressed to the person at that address; or

by sending it to a fax number or email address nominated by the person; or

by sending it by any other form of electronic communication nominated by the person; or

by notifying the person in accordance with subsection (2).

If—

a person nominates an electronic means (the nominated notification means) by which the person may be notified that a notice has been given to the person; and

the person nominates an electronic means (the nominated access means) by which the person may access that notice—

If a fax or email or other form of electronic communication is received after 4.00 p.m. on any day, it is taken to have been received on the next business day.

A notice, other than a traffic infringement notice, served by post to a person at an authorised address (within the meaning of section 163A of the Infringements Act 2006) and returned undelivered to its sender is deemed to be served 7 days after the date specified in the notice as the date of the notice, despite it being returned to the sender as undelivered.

Despite subsection (4), if—

a notice is returned undelivered; and

the person to whom the notice was sent demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the person could not reasonably be expected to have received the notice—

A person's residential address or address for the service of notices (including an electronic address) recorded against the person in any record maintained by the Secretary may be updated on the basis of notification by a third party and, for the purposes of subsection (4), is taken to be an authorised address of the person if the Secretary is satisfied that—

the third party is a credible source of that information; and

the information is likely to be up-to-date.