Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Country Fire Authority Act 1958 - SECT 41A

Service of notices

41A. Service of notices



(1) A fire prevention notice may be served on an owner or occupier-

   (a)  by giving it to or serving it personally on the owner or occupier; or

   (b)  by sending it by post to the owner or occupier at that person's usual
        or last known residential or business address; or

   (c)  by leaving it at the usual or last known residential or business
        address of the owner or occupier with a person on the premises who is
        apparently at least 16 years old and apparently residing or employed
        there; or

   (d)  in a manner prescribed by any other Act or law for service on a person
        or class of persons of the same type as the owner or occupier.

(2) If the fire prevention officer-

   (a)  does not know who the owner or occupier of any land is; or

   (b)  does not know the residential or business address of the owner or
        occupier; or

   (c)  believes that the owner or occupier is absent from Victoria and has no
        agent in Victoria known to the officer-

the fire prevention notice may be served in accordance with subsection (3).

(3) If subsection (2) applies, a fire prevention notice may be served-

   (a)  by displaying it on the land; and

   (b)  by publishing a notice, in the prescribed form and containing the
        prescribed particulars, in a newspaper circulating generally in the
        municipal district.

(4) A notice served under subsection (3) is sufficient notice to the owner or
occupier from the date of display or publication, whichever is later.

(5) Unless a fire prevention notice is withdrawn or cancelled, the costs of
serving the notice (including reasonable administrative, labour and overhead
costs and expenses incurred) may be recovered from the person on whom it was
served-

   (a)  if the notice was served by a fire prevention officer, by the relevant
        municipal council;

   (b)  if the notice was served by the Chief Officer, by the Authority.