New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ROAD TRANSPORT (GENERAL) REGULATION 2005 - REG 6

6 Service of notices on persons under Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998

(1) For the purposes of sections 239 (3) and 240 (2) of the Act, the provisions of this clause set out the only manner in which a notice under the driver licensing law may be given or served.

(2) The Authority may give or serve a notice under the driver licensing law on a person by sending the notice by post or by some other means to the person’s last known residential address, or the address for service of notices (if any) recorded in the driver licence register.

(3) The date on which a person is taken to have been given or served with a notice under a regulation made under the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 or a notice under section 25A (1A) of that Act is:

(a) if the notice is sent by mail-the fourth working day after the notice was posted, or

(b) if the notice was delivered to the person personally-the date when it is so delivered.

(4) If a person’s residential address or address for service of notices is in another jurisdiction, the Authority may request the driver licensing authority of another jurisdiction to act on its behalf in giving or serving a notice on the person or in performing any other act that the Authority could lawfully perform in this jurisdiction.

(5) If the Authority receives a request under a provision of the corresponding law of another jurisdiction that corresponds with subclause (4), it may act on behalf of the driver licensing authority of that jurisdiction accordingly.

(5A) A notice given for the purposes of clause 58 of the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulation 2008 may only be given personally.

(6) If it is provided in a regulation made under the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 that any notification, document or thing must be forwarded, surrendered or delivered to the Authority, it is sufficient compliance with any such provision if the notification, document or thing is forwarded or surrendered to or delivered at a motor registry within the time prescribed by the regulation concerned.

(7) In this clause:
"corresponding law" has the same meaning as it has in the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 .
"driver licence register" has the same meaning as it has in the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 .
"driver licensing law" means:

(a) the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 , and

(b) any regulation made under that Act.

"jurisdiction" has the same meaning as it has in the Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act 1998 .