Fire Safety Act 1993 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Miscellaneous
99A. Use of electronic service for making applications under Part 4
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The Commissioner may permit an application to him or her under Part 4 to be made through the electronic service described in section 42AA of the Building Control Act 1989.
Commissioner
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Civil Defence appointed under section 6 of the Civil Defence Act 1986;
Where a person uses the electronic service mentioned in subsection (1) to make an application to the Commissioner, the Commissioner may serve on the person any acknowledgment, approval, certificate, direction, notice, permit or other document in connection with the application, by sending it to the person’s account with the electronic service.
Service of a document on a person under subsection (2) takes effect at the time when an electronic record of the document reaches the person’s account with the electronic service.
This section applies despite anything to the contrary in this Act.
In this section, “electronic record” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Electronic Transactions Act 2010.