Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 239

239 Substituted service

(1) If an owner of rateable land is known to be absent from the State, a local government 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) a local government must serve a document on a person who owns or occupies a property; but

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

(3) The local government may serve the document by—

(a) publishing a notice that contains a copy of the document on the local government’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 local government knows the person’s name—the person by name; or

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

(5) In this section, a reference to a local government includes a reference to a joint local government.