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Part 6 · General

36B. Electronic service

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Amended

Last amended by an amending law of 2024.

(1)

The Registrar may —

(a)

provide an electronic service for the service of any document that is required or authorised by this Act to be served on any person; and

(b)

assign to any person an account with the electronic service.

(2)

Despite section 36A, where a person has given consent for any document to be served on the person through the electronic service —

(a)

the Registrar may serve the document on that person by transmitting an electronic record of the document to that person’s account with the electronic service; and

(b)

the document is treated as having been served at the time when an electronic record of the document is capable of being retrieved by the person.

(3)

In this section —

“account with the electronic service”, in relation to any person, means an account within the electronic service that is assigned by the Registrar to the person for the storage and retrieval of electronic records relating to the person;

“document” includes a notice, an order and a direction;

“electronic record” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Electronic Transactions Act 2010.

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