Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 473HC

Coverage of section

  (1)   For the purposes of provisions of this Part or the regulations that:

  (a)   require or permit the Immigration Assessment Authority to give a document to the Secretary; and

  (b)   state that the Authority must do so by one of the methods specified in this section;

the methods are as follows.

Giving by hand

  (2)   One method consists of a Reviewer, a person authorised in writing by the Senior Reviewer or a person mentioned in subsection   473JE(2), handing the document to the Secretary or to an authorised officer.

Dispatch by post or by other means

  (3)   Another method consists of a Reviewer or a person mentioned in subsection   473JE(2), dating the document, and then dispatching it:

  (a)   within 3 working days (in the place of dispatch) of the date of the document; and

  (b)   by post or by other means; and

  (c)   to an address, notified to the Immigration Assessment Authority in writing by the Secretary, to which such documents can be dispatched.

Transmission by fax, e - mail or other electronic means

  (4)   Another method consists of a Reviewer or a person mentioned in subsection   473JE(2), transmitting the document by:

  (a)   fax; or

  (b)   email; or

  (c)   other electronic means;

to the last fax number, email address or other electronic address notified to the Authority in writing by the Secretary for the purpose.