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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Miscellaneous - Disclosure of prisoner information

180D: Notice required by section 180C(1)(d)

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"Notice to explain why your payments were stopped"

When a notice is required by section 180C(1)(d), you must receive information about the discrepancy and the suspension. The notice must tell you that you can explain why your payments should not have been stopped after you get the notice. You can get the notice in person, or it can be left at your home or business, or sent to you in the mail. If the notice is sent to you by post, it is assumed you got it four days after it was sent, unless someone can prove otherwise.

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Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Disclosure of prisoner information

180DNotice required by section 180C(1)(d)

  1. A notice required by section 180C(1)(d)—

  2. must specify particulars of—
    1. the discrepancy or discrepancies concerned; and
      1. the suspension or suspensions concerned; and
      2. must state that the person concerned may, after the receipt of the notice, show cause why payments of any benefit, allowance, or student loan should not have been suspended.

        1. A notice required by section 180C(1)(d) must be delivered to the person concerned—

        2. personally; or
          1. by leaving it at the person’s usual or last known place of residence or business or at the address specified by the person in any application or other document received from the person; or
            1. by posting it in a letter addressed to the person at that place of residence or business or at that address.

              1. If a notice required to be given under section 180C(1)(d) is sent to a person by post,—

              2. the notice must, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be taken to have been delivered to that person on the fourth day after the day on which it was posted; and
                1. in proving the delivery it is sufficient to prove that the letter was properly addressed and posted.

                  Notes
                  • Section 180D: inserted, on , by section 5 of the Corrections (Social Assistance) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 24).