Clause 33

The Board may provide an electronic service platform for the Board to serve documents required or permitted to be served under this Act.(2) For the purposes of the electronic service platform, the Board may assign to any person an account with the electronic service platform. (3) Where regulations made under section 77(1) permit the Board to serve any document through the electronic service platform on a person who has been assigned an account with the electronic service platform, the Board may serve the document on the person by transmitting an electronic record of the document to that account.(4) The Minister may make regulations under section 77(1) which are necessary or expedient for carrying out the purposes of this section, including regulations prescribing —

the procedure for the use of the electronic service platform, including the procedure in circumstances where there is a breakdown or interruption of the electronic service platform;

the circumstances in which the Board may serve any document through the electronic service platform on a person assigned an account with the electronic service platform; and

the manner in which a person who has been served a document through the electronic service platform is to be notified of the transmission of an electronic record of the document to the person’s account with the electronic service platform.(5) Regulations made for the purpose of subsection (4)(b) —

may provide for service of any document through the electronic service platform in circumstances where —

the person consents to such service; or

the Board gives the person notice of the Board’s intention of such service and the person does not refuse such service;

may make provision with respect to the giving of any notice of the Board’s intention, or the person’s consent or refusal, mentioned in paragraph (a), including —

the matters that must be contained in the notice; and

the time within which, and the form and manner in which, the consent or refusal must be received by the Board;

may provide when the consent or refusal of the person takes effect and when the Board must give effect to such consent or refusal; and

may provide for any other matter necessary or incidental to the purposes in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) and subsection (4)(b).”.