Fines and Penalties (Recovery) Act 2001
57Service of notice
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57 Service of notice (1) Notice of the making of an enforcement order may be served personally, by post, by facsimile transmission or in any other manner prescribed by the Regulations. (2) The address for service of a notice of the making of a fine enforcement order includes the address for service of the person in connection with the proceedings in which the fine was imposed.
Fines and Penalties (Recovery) Act 2001 29 (3) The address for service of a notice of the making of a penalty enforcement order includes: (a) the address of the person shown on the infringement notice or supplied by the person in connection with the service of the infringement notice; and (b) if the infringement notice was served on the person in his or her capacity as owner of a vehicle or was served by being left on a vehicle – the address shown in the records of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles or other government Agency as the address of the owner of the vehicle at the time the infringement notice was served; and (c) if the infringement notice was served on the person in the capacity of having been identified as the person driving or in charge of a vehicle at the time of the alleged offence in a statutory declaration by the owner of the vehicle – the address specified in the statutory declaration; and (d) in the case of a corporation or government entity – the address of a place where the corporation or entity carries on business (including the business of government) and includes a registered address.