Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 399

399 Service of documents by prescribed persons

(1) This section applies—

(a) to each of the following persons (a
"prescribed person" )—

(i) a holder of, or applicant for the grant of, a mining tenement;

(ii) a person who is carrying out, or intends to carry out, an activity under section 386V ; and

(b) if the prescribed person is required to give a document to, or serve a document on, either of the following persons (the
"recipient" )—

(i) an owner of land;

(ii) an affected person under section 64A or 252A .

(2) The prescribed person gives the document to the recipient, or serves the document on the recipient, if—

(a) the document is served personally on the recipient; or

(b) the document is sent by registered post to the recipient’s place of residence or business last known to the prescribed person; or

(c) the document is sent to an email address that the recipient—

(i) gave the prescribed person to use to communicate with the recipient; and

(ii) has not asked the prescribed person to stop using to communicate with the recipient.

(3) This section does not limit the Electronic Transactions (Queensland) Act 2001 .

(4) In this section—

"document" includes information.