Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1991 No. 98 of 1991 - SECT 135

135. (1) If:

   (a)  a general carrier is unable, after diligent inquiry, to find out who
        owns particular land; or

   (b)  a general carrier is unable to serve a notice under this Division on
        the owner of land either personally or by post; the carrier may serve
        a notice under this Division on the owner of the land by publishing a
        copy of the notice in a newspaper circulating in a district in which
        the land is situated and:

   (c)  if the land is occupied - serving a copy of the notice on the
        occupier; or

   (d)  if the land is not occupied - attaching, if practicable, a copy of the
        notice to a conspicuous part of the land.

(2) If a general carrier is unable, after diligent inquiry, to find out:

   (a)  whether particular land is occupied; or

   (b)  who occupies particular land; it may treat the land as unoccupied
        land.

(3) If a general carrier is unable to serve a notice under this Division on
the occupier of land either personally or by post, the carrier may serve a
notice under this Division on the occupier by:

   (a)  publishing a copy of the notice in a newspaper circulating in a
        district in which the land is situated; and

   (b)  attaching, if practicable, a copy of the notice to a conspicuous part
        of the land.

(4) This section does not affect the operation of any other law of the
Commonwealth, or of any law of a State or Territory, that authorises the
service of a document otherwise than as provided in this section.