710Service of notices on persons

710 Service of notices on persons

710 Service of notices on persons

(1) A notice required by or under this Act to be served on a person may be served as provided by this section.

(2) The service may be—

(a) personal, or

(b) by delivering the notice at or on the premises at which the person to be served lives or carries on business, and leaving it with any person apparently above the age of 14 years resident or employed at the premises, or

(c) by posting the notice by prepaid letter addressed to the last known place of residence or business or post office box of the person to be served, or

(d) by transmitting the notice by facsimile transmission to a number specified by the person (on correspondence or otherwise) as a number to which facsimile transmissions to that person may be sent, or

(d1) by transmitting the notice by electronic mail to an email address specified by the person (on correspondence or otherwise) as an address to which electronic mail to that person may be transmitted, or

(e) by fixing the notice on any conspicuous part of the land, building or premises owned or occupied by the person, or

(f) in the case of an offence involving a vehicle, by attaching the notice to the vehicle, or

(g) if the person to be served maintains a box at a document exchange established in New South Wales, by depositing the notice in that box or leaving it at another such exchange for transmission to the firstmentioned exchange for deposit in that box.

(2A) Subsection (2)(d1) does not authorise a notice to be transmitted to a person by electronic mail unless the person has requested the council, in writing, that notices of that kind be transmitted to the person by electronic mail, and has not subsequently withdrawn the request.

(2B) A person’s request under subsection (2A) is taken to have been withdrawn in relation to a particular kind of notice only if the person has informed the council, in writing, that notices of that kind are no longer to be transmitted to the person by electronic mail.

(2C) While a person’s request under subsection (2A) has effect in relation to a particular kind of notice, the address to which notices of that kind are to be transmitted is—