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Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007

Miscellaneous provisions - Miscellaneous matters

93: Service of notices

You could also call this:

“How you can receive important papers about immigration advice”

When someone needs to give you a notice or document under this law, there are different ways they can do it. If you’re applying for a licence or you’re already a licensed immigration adviser, they can deliver it to the address you gave them, send it by fax or email to the number or address you provided, or post it to your address. For anyone else, they can give it to you directly, leave it at your home or work in New Zealand, or post it to your address in New Zealand.

If they send you a notice or document by fax or email, you’re considered to have received it within 2 days after they sent it. If they post it to you, you’re considered to have received it within 9 days after they posted it. However, if you can prove that you didn’t actually receive it, and it wasn’t your fault, then these rules about when you’re supposed to have received it don’t apply.

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Part 2 Miscellaneous provisions
Miscellaneous matters

93Service of notices

  1. Any notice or any other document required to be served on, or given to, any person under this Act, or any regulation made under this Act, is sufficiently served if,—

  2. in the case of an applicant for a licence or a licensed immigration adviser, the notice or document is—
    1. delivered to the person at the person's address for service stated in accordance with section 18(c)(ii); or
      1. sent by fax or email to the person's fax number or email address, as the case may be, provided for the purpose by the applicant or licensed immigration adviser; or
        1. posted in a letter addressed to the person at the person's address for service stated in accordance with section 18(c)(ii); or
        2. in any other case, the notice or document is—
          1. delivered to the person; or
            1. left at the person's usual or last known place of residence or business in New Zealand; or
              1. posted in a letter addressed to the person at the person's place of residence or business in New Zealand.

              2. A notice or document that is sent to a person at a fax number or an email address must be treated as received by that person not later than 2 days after the date on which it is sent.

              3. A notice or document that is posted to a person must be treated as received by that person not later than 9 days after the date on which it is posted.

              4. However, a notice or document must not be treated as received if the person to whom it is posted or sent proves that it was not received, otherwise than through fault on the person's part.

              Notes
              • Section 93(3): amended, on , by section 113 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).