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Arms Bill

Further offences and firearms prohibition orders - Infringement offences

279: How infringement notice may be served

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"How you can get an infringement notice"

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If you get an infringement notice, it can be given to you in several ways. You might get it by having it delivered to you, or by someone leaving it at your home or work with another person. It can also be sent to you by post or to your electronic address. If the notice is sent by post, you are usually considered to have received it five working days after it was sent. If it is sent to your electronic address, you are considered to have received it when the message first arrives in your system. This is how the proposed law says an infringement notice may be served on you.

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Part 6Further offences and firearms prohibition orders
Infringement offences

279How infringement notice may be served

  1. An infringement notice may be served on the person who an officer of the Arms Regulator 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 14 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 Arms Regulator.