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Lands Acquisition Act 1978
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(1) A notice or other document that is required to be or may be served
on or lodged with a person under this Act may be served on or
lodged with that person:
(a) personally;
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(b) by post; or
(c) if that person is the Minister, by serving the notice or other
document on, or lodging it with, the Solicitor for the Northern
Territory.
(2) The Solicitor for the Northern Territory is authorised to accept
service of any document served on or lodged with him under
subsection (1)(c).
(3) If:
(a) the whereabouts of a person who is required to be or may be
served with a notice or other document is not known; or
(b) the identity of an affected person or claimant cannot be
ascertained,
the notice or other document may be served on that person or
claimant:
(c) by publication of a copy of that notice or other document in a
newspaper published and circulating in the Territory;
(d) by affixing a copy of that notice or other document in a
prominent place on the land to which it relates; or
(e) where:
(i) it relates to a native title right or interest; and
(ii) there is no registered native title claimant or registered
native title body corporate in relation to the land to which
the notice or other document relates,
by leaving the notice or document at the address of the
representative Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander body in relation to
the land.