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Biosecurity Act 1993

Enforcement, offences, and penalties - Compliance orders

154B: Service

You could also call this:

"How you get told to follow a compliance order"

If you get a compliance order, it must be given to you. You will know it is a compliance order because it is made by an inspector or authorised person. The inspector or authorised person must make sure you get the order.

The order can be given to you in different ways. You might get it by hand, or it might be sent to your house or work. It can also be sent to you by fax or email, or posted to you in a letter.

If you are part of a group or company, the order can be given to one of your colleagues or to your group's office. If the order is posted to you, it is considered given to you when it would normally arrive in the mail.

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Part 8Enforcement, offences, and penalties
Compliance orders

154BService

  1. An inspector or authorised person who makes a compliance order must ensure that it is served on the person against whom it is made.

  2. A compliance order may be served by—

  3. delivering it personally to the person:
    1. delivering it to the person at the person's usual or last-known place of residence or business:
      1. sending it by fax or email to the person's fax number or email address:
        1. posting it in a letter addressed to the person at the person's usual or last known place of residence or business.

          1. The following provisions apply to service as described in subsection (2):

          2. service on an officer of a body, or on the body's registered office, is deemed to be service on the body:
            1. service on any of the partners in a partnership is deemed to be service on the partnership:
              1. service by post is deemed to occur at the time at which the order would have been delivered in the ordinary course of the post.

                Notes
                • Section 154B: inserted, on , by section 66 of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).