Queensland Consolidated Acts

ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT 1991 - SECT 263F

263F Use of address for service

(1) For a complaint, the address for service of a relevant party for the complaint is the relevant party’s address for service—

(a) for the commissioner—as most recently notified to the commissioner; or

(b) for another relevant party for the complaint—as most recently notified to the other relevant party.

(2) If a document is required or permitted to be given to a relevant party for a complaint, the document is taken to be given to the relevant party if 1 of the following applies—

(a) the relevant party is an individual, and the document is handed to the relevant party personally;

(b) the document is posted to the relevant party’s address for service;

(c) the relevant party’s address for service is a residential address, and the document is left with someone apparently living at the address who is apparently at least 16 years;

(d) the relevant party is a body corporate, its address for service is a business address, and the document is left at the address for service.

(3) Despite subsection (2) (c) and (d) , if the relevant party’s address for service is a residential or business address and is a place in a building or area to which a person delivering a document is denied access, the document is taken to be given to the relevant party if it is left at the building or area in a position where it is reasonably likely to come to the attention of the relevant party.

(4) Subsection (2) (b) does not stop the relevant party from establishing that the relevant party was not given the document by proving that the document was not delivered to the address for service.

(5) If the document is given to a relevant party under subsection (2) (c) or (d) or (3) , the giving of the document is taken to have been effected on the business day after the document is left in the way required.