Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND VALUATION ACT 2010 - SECT 247A

247A Electronic service

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the valuer-general wishes to serve a notice or other document on a person for a purpose under this Act; and

(b) the person’s address for service is an electronic address.

(2) The valuer-general may serve the document on the person by electronically transmitting to the electronic address—

(a) the document; or

(b) a message stating the document is available for the person to view by opening a stated hyperlink.

(3) For subsection (2) (b) , the person is taken to have been served with the document if it was able to be viewed at the location accessed by opening the hyperlink—

(a) when the communication was transmitted (the
"sending time" ); and

(b) for a period after the sending time that, in all the circumstances, was reasonable to allow the person to open the hyperlink and read or copy the document.

(4) Subsection (3) applies whether or not the person opened the hyperlink.

(5) This section does not limit the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 , section 39 or the Electronic Transactions (Queensland) Act 2001 .