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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Offences and miscellaneous - Miscellaneous provisions

96: Service of documents

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"How to give important papers to someone, like a permit holder, in a way that counts as official delivery"

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When you need to give a document to a permit holder, it is considered delivered if you send it to their email address, as listed under section 95(1), or deliver it to their physical address, also listed under section 95(1), or send it by pre-paid post to that physical address, which is listed under section 95(1). You can use these same methods for a permit holder. If you are sending a document to someone else, you must use the address they gave you.

If the person you are sending a document to did not give you an address, you can deliver it to them in person, or leave it at their home or workplace, or send it by pre-paid post to their home or workplace, or to their PO box, or leave it at a document exchange for them. When you send a document by post, it is assumed the person gets it when it would normally arrive. This rule does not override other parts of the Act that say how documents can be served.

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Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Offences and miscellaneous: Miscellaneous provisions

96Service of documents

  1. If a notice or other document is to be served on a permit holder, the document is validly served if it is—

  2. sent to an email address given as the permit holder’s address for service under section 95(1):
    1. delivered to a physical address given as the permit holder’s address for service under section 95(1):
      1. sent by pre-paid post addressed to the permit holder at the physical address given as the permit holder’s address for service under section 95(1).

        1. If a notice or other document is to be served on a person other than a permit holder for the purposes of this Act,—

        2. if the person has given an address for service, the document must be served by delivering or sending it to that address:
          1. if the person has not given an address for service, the document may be served by any of the following methods:
            1. delivering it personally to the person:
              1. delivering it at the usual or last known place of residence or business of the person:
                1. sending it by pre-paid post addressed to the person at the usual or last known place of residence or business of the person:
                  1. sending it by pre-paid post to a PO box address used by the person:
                    1. leaving it at a document exchange for direction to the document exchange box number used by the person.

                    2. If a notice or other document is sent by post to a person in accordance with this section, it is deemed, in the absence of proof to the contrary, to be received by the person at the time at which the document would have been delivered in the ordinary course of the post.

                    3. This section is subject to any other provision of this Act that specifies how a document may be served or issued.

                    Notes
                    • Section 96: replaced, on , by section 61 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 40).