Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

A document required or authorised to be given under this Act to a person other than the CEO may be given to the person by —

giving it to the person personally; or

leaving it at the person’s place of residence or business; or

sending it by prepaid post (including document exchange) addressed to the person —

in accordance with the Interpretation Act 1984 section 75(1); or

at an address appearing on recent correspondence addressed by or on behalf of the person to the CEO or otherwise notified to the CEO or published by the person; or

at an address shown in the rate book kept by a local government under the Local Government Act 1995 as the address for the service of rate notices under that Act on that person;

faxing it to a fax number, or emailing it to an email address, provided by the person or appearing on recent correspondence addressed by or on behalf of the person to the CEO or otherwise notified to the CEO or published by the person; or

communicating it in some other way agreed with the person.

Where an address for service cannot be identified for the purposes of subsection (1), the document may be given by advertising the document at least twice in the prescribed way, with an interval of at least one week between the advertisements.

The use of a particular method for giving a document to a person does not prevent the giving of other documents to the same person in a different way.

Failure to properly give a document to one person does not affect whether or not it was properly given to another person.