MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 473HD When a person other than the Secretary is taken to have received a document from the Immigration Assessment Authority
MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 473HD
When a person other than the Secretary is taken to have received a document from the Immigration Assessment Authority(1) This section applies if the Immigration Assessment Authority gives a document to a person other than the Secretary by one of the methods specified in section 473HB (including in a case covered by section 473HA).
(2) If the Immigration Assessment Authority gives a document to a person by the method in subsection 473HB(3) (which involves handing the document to the person), the person is taken to have received the document when it is handed to the person.
Handing to a person at last residential or business address
(3) If the Immigration Assessment Authority gives a document to a person by the method in subsection 473HB(4) (which involves handing the document to another person at a residential or business address), the person is taken to have received the document when it is handed to the other person.
Dispatch by prepaid post or by other prepaid means
(4) If the Immigration Assessment Authority gives a document to a person by the method in subsection 473HB(5) (which involves dispatching the document by prepaid post or by other prepaid means), the person is taken to have received the document 7 working days (in the place of that address) after the date of the document.
Transmission by fax, email or other electronic means
(5) If the Immigration Assessment Authority gives a document to a person by the method in subsection 473HB(6) (which involves transmitting the document by fax, email or other electronic means), the person is taken to have received the document at the end of the day on which the document is transmitted.
(6) Subsection (5) applies despite sections 14, 14A and 14B of the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 .
Document not given effectively
(a) the Immigration Assessment Authority purports to give a document to a person in accordance with a method specified in section 473HB (including in a case covered by section 473HA) but makes an error in doing so; and
(b) the person nonetheless receives the document or a copy of it;
then the person is taken to have received the document at the times mentioned
in this section as if the Authority had given the document to the person
without making an error in doing so, unless the person can show that he or she
received it at a later time, in which case, the person is taken to have
received it at that time.