38MSatisfying print newspaper publication requirements

38M Satisfying print newspaper publication requirements (1) If an Act, a statutory rule or any other subordinate instrument requires notice (however described) to be published in a print newspaper circulating generally in Victoria that requirement is taken to have been met, for all purposes, if the notice is published— (a) on an approved alternative publication Internet site; or (b) in a prescribed manner; or (c) on a prescribed platform. (2) Without limiting subsection (1), any requirement under an Act, a statutory rule or any other subordinate instrument to provide a copy of a notice published in a print newspaper or to distribute or use a notice published in a print newspaper for any purpose is taken to have been met by providing, distributing or using an electronic notice published in accordance with subsection (1). (2A) For the avoidance of doubt, subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to any requirement under an Act, a statutory rule or any other subordinate instrument to provide for the publication of a notice published in a print newspaper in a particular locality. (3) The regulations may exempt an entity or a class of entity or a document (including an Act, a statutory rule or any other subordinate instrument) or class of document from the application of this section. (4) Nothing in this section— (a) limits the manner or form in which any notice required to be published by an Act, a statutory rule or other subordinate instrument may be published; or (b) exempts any entity from complying with any other obligation or requirement under the Act, statutory rule or other subordinate instrument to which the notice relates in relation to the publication of the notice other than in a print newspaper. S. 38N inserted by No. 13/2022 s. 38.