Queensland Consolidated Acts

CITY OF BRISBANE ACT 2010 - SECT 220

220 Substituted service

(1) If an owner of rateable land is known to be absent from the State, the council may serve a document on the owner by serving the document on the owner’s agent in the State.

(2) Subsection (3) applies if—

(a) the council must serve a document on a person who owns or occupies a property; but

(b) the council does not know, or is uncertain about, the person’s current address.

(3) The council may serve the document by—

(a) publishing a notice that contains a copy of the document on the council’s website; or

(b) publishing a notice that contains a summary of the document in—

(i) a newspaper that is circulating generally throughout the State; and

(ii) the gazette.

(4) The notice must be addressed to—

(a) if the council knows the person’s name—the person by name; or

(b) if the council does not know the person’s name—the ‘owner’ or ‘occupier’ at the property’s address.