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Administration and enforcement - Enforcement - Compliance notices

135: How compliance notice is issued

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If a compliance notice is issued to you, it can be given in different ways. You might get it by someone handing it to you, or if you do not want to take it, they can just let you know it is there. It can also be left at your home with someone who is at least 16 years old, or at your workplace with another person. You can get a compliance notice by post, sent to your home or workplace, or it can be sent to your email address if you do not have a known home or workplace in New Zealand. There may be rules about what you need to do to let other people know you got a compliance notice.

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Enforcement: Compliance notices

135How compliance notice is issued

  1. A compliance notice may be issued to a person 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. Regulations may prescribe the steps a person to whom a compliance notice is issued must take to bring it to the attention of other persons.

            2. A compliance notice—

            3. posted under subsection (1)(d) is to be treated as having been received by the person 5 working days after the day on which it was posted:
              1. sent electronically under subsection (1)(e) is to be treated as having been received at the time the electronic communication first entered an information system that is outside the control of the chief executive or an enforcement officer.