New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ROAD TRANSPORT (GENERAL) REGULATION 2005 - REG 7

7 Service of notices on registered operators and delivery of things to Authority under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997

(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 vehicle registration law may be given or served on the registered operator of a registrable vehicle.

(2) The Authority may give or serve any notice under the vehicle registration law on the registered operator of a registrable vehicle by sending the notice by post or by some other means to the registered operator’s residential address, or to the address for service of notices recorded in the Register in relation to the vehicle.

(3) The date on which a registered operator is taken to have been given or served with a notice under a regulation made under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 is:

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

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

(4) If it is provided in a regulation made under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 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.

(5) In this clause:
"Register" has the same meaning as it has in the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 .
"residential address" has the same meaning as it has in the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 .

Note: Section 4 of the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 defines "residential address", in relation to a company or other body corporate, to mean its registered office or any place recorded in the Register as its residential address or business address.

"vehicle registration law" means:

(a) the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997 , and

(b) any regulation made under that Act.