52Communication with Minister

52  Communication with Minister

 (1) A visa applicant or interested person must communicate with the Minister in the prescribed way.

 (2) The regulations may prescribe different ways of communicating and specify the circumstances when communication is to be in a particular way. For this purpose, a way of communicating includes any associated process for authenticating identity.

 (3) If the applicant or interested person purports to communicate anything to the Minister in a way that is not the prescribed way, the communication is taken not to have been received unless the Minister in fact receives it.

 (3A) A visa applicant must tell the Minister the address at which the applicant intends to live while the application is being dealt with.

 (3B) If the applicant proposes to change the address at which he or she intends to live for a period of 14 days or more, the applicant must tell the Minister the address and the period of proposed residence.

 (3C) If, in accordance with the regulations, 2 or more non‑citizens apply for visas together, notifications given to any of them about the application are taken to be given to each of them.

Note 1: If the Minister gives a person a document by a method specified in section 494B, the person is taken to have received the document at the time specified in section 494C in respect of that method.

Note 2: Section 494D deals with giving documents to a person’s authorised recipient.

 (4) In this section, interested person means a person who wants, or who is requested, to give information about the applicant to the Minister.