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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Offences and miscellaneous - Offences and legal proceedings

104G: How infringement notice may be issued to person

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"How you can be given a notice for breaking a rule"

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If you are given an infringement notice, it means someone thinks you have broken a rule. The chief executive or enforcement officer can give you the notice in several ways. They can deliver it to you, or leave it at your home with someone who is at least 16 years old, or at your workplace with someone else.

They can also send it to you by post to your home or workplace, or to your electronic address if you do not have a known address in New Zealand. If they send it by post, it is considered delivered five working days after it was sent.

If they send it to your electronic address, it is considered delivered as soon as it reaches a system outside their control.

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Offences and miscellaneous: Offences and legal proceedings

104GHow infringement notice may be issued to person

  1. An infringement notice may be issued to a person who the chief executive or enforcement officer believes is committing or has committed the infringement offence 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. Unless the contrary is shown,—

            2. an infringement notice (or a copy of it) sent by prepaid post to a person under subsection (1) is to be treated as having been served on that person on the fifth working day after the date on which it was posted; and
              1. an infringement notice sent to a valid electronic address is to be treated as having been served at the time the electronic communication first entered an information system that is outside the control of the chief executive or enforcement officer.

                Notes
                • Section 104G: inserted, on , by section 26 of the Crown Minerals (Decommissioning and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 53).