Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007

A document required or authorised to be given under this Act may be given to a 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; or

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

communicating it in some other way agreed with the person.

Where an address for service cannot be discovered under subsection (1), the document may be given by advertising the document at least twice in a newspaper circulating throughout the State, an interval of at least a week being allowed to elapse between the advertisements.

Service under subsection (2) is to be regarded as effective whether the notice comes or does not come to the hands or knowledge of the person for whom it was intended.