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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Enforcement, remedies, and appeals - General provisions

89ZZS: Issue of compliance notice

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A compliance notice can be given to you by someone delivering it to you, or bringing it to your notice if you refuse to accept it. It can also be left for you at your home with someone who is 16 or older, or at your work with another person. The notice can be sent to you by post or to your electronic address if you do not have a known home or work address in New Zealand. You might need to take steps to tell other people about the compliance notice, and these steps can be set out in regulations. If the notice is sent by post, you are considered to have received it five working days after it was sent, or if it is sent electronically, you are considered to have received it when the message first entered a system that is not controlled by the chief executive or an enforcement officer, as explained in the Crown Minerals Act 1991.

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Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Enforcement, remedies, and appeals: General provisions

89ZZSIssue of compliance notice

  1. A compliance notice may be issued to a person by—

  2. delivering it to the person or, if the person refuses to accept it, bringing it to the person’s notice; or
    1. leaving it for the person at the person’s last known place of residence with another person who appears to be of or over the age of 16 years; or
      1. leaving it for the person at the person’s place of business or work with another person; or
        1. sending it to the person by prepaid post addressed to the person’s last known place of residence or place of business or work; or
          1. sending it to an electronic address of the person in any case where the person does not have a known place of residence or business in New Zealand.

            1. Regulations may prescribe the steps a person to whom a compliance notice is issued must take to bring it to the attention of other persons.

            2. A compliance notice—

            3. posted under subsection (1)(d) is to be treated as having been received by the person on the fifth working day after the day on which it was posted:
              1. delivered electronically under subsection (1)(e) is to be treated as having been received at the time the electronic communication first entered an information system that is outside the control of the chief executive or an enforcement officer.

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                • Section 89ZZS: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Crown Minerals (Decommissioning and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 53).