State Penalties Enforcement Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 2016 (Qld)

1   Short title

This regulation may be cited as the State Penalties Enforcement Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 2016 .

2   Regulation amended

This regulation amends the State Penalties Enforcement Regulation 2014 .

3   Insertion of new s 19A

Part 6, before section 20—
insert—

19A   Prescribed additional way of serving infringement notices—Act, s 158(1)(c)

(1)This section applies if—

(a)an authorised person may serve an infringement notice for an offence on a person (the relevant person) under section 13 or 14 of the Act; and

(b)the relevant person consents to being served with the infringement notice by way of the authorised person sending the notice by electronic means to an electronic address nominated by the relevant person.

Example of an electronic address—

an email address or mobile phone number

(2)A consent that in substance satisfies subsection (1)(b) is sufficient for the subsection.

(3)The infringement notice may be served on the relevant person by the authorised person sending the notice by electronic means to the electronic address.

(4)For section 158(4)(b) of the Act, the day prescribed for the method of service stated in subsection (3) is the day the infringement notice is sent by the authorised person by electronic means to the electronic address nominated by the relevant person.

(5)In this section—

electronic means includes, for example, email, multi-media message and SMS.