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4: Interpretation
or “Explains the meanings of important words and terms used in the Immigration Act 2009”
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“How to properly send notices and documents to different people”

If you need to send a notice or document to the Minister, you must do it in the way described in section 386(1).

If you need to send a notice or document to an immigration officer or a refugee and protection officer, you must do it in the way described in section 386(2).

If you need to send a notice or document to someone else (not the Minister or the officers mentioned above), you must do it in the way described in section 386A(2).

If you need to give, notify, or send a notice or document to someone else (not the Minister or the officers mentioned earlier), you must do it in the way described in section 386A(3).

These rules about sending notices and documents can sometimes be changed by sections 386(8) and 387B.

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Part 1 Preliminary provisions

5Notifications

  1. Where this Act or regulations under this Act provide that any notice or other document must be served on or supplied to the Minister, it must be served or supplied in accordance with section 386(1).

  2. Where this Act or regulations under this Act provide that any notice or other document must be served on or supplied to an immigration officer or a refugee and protection officer, it must be served or supplied in accordance with section 386(2).

  3. Where this Act or any regulations under this Act provide that any notice or other document must be served on a person other than the Minister or a person referred to in subsection (2), the notice or other document must be served in accordance with section 386A(2).

  4. Where this Act or any regulations under this Act provide that any notice or other document must be supplied, notified, or in any other way given to a person other than the Minister or a person referred to in subsection (2), the notice or other document must be given or sent to the person in accordance with section 386A(3).

  5. Subsections (1) to (4) are subject to sections 386(8) and 387B.

Notes
  • Section 5(3): replaced, on , by section 5 of the Immigration Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 48).
  • Section 5(4): replaced, on , by section 5 of the Immigration Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 48).
  • Section 5(5): inserted, on , by section 5 of the Immigration Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 48).