Section 449 — Social Security Act 2018: Regulations: ways MSD or person can meet requirement to give notice or other document

449 Regulations: ways MSD or person can meet requirement to give notice or other document (1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the purposes of section 364 . (2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may (without limitation) do all or any of the following: (a) provide for different ways of giving a document to an individual (other than an officer or employee in the service of the Crown in that person’s official capacity),

and to an officer or employee in the service of the Crown in that person’s official capacity, including (without limitation) all or any of the following ways: (i) giving personally in hard-copy form: (ii) leaving at or posting to an address prescribed by the regulations: (iii) giving by an electronic means (with the individual’s express or inferred consent) in accordance with Part 4 of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017: (b) provide when documents given in different prescribed ways are, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, taken to have been received. (3) This section is subject to section 254 (how notice of sanction may be given), and regulations made under this section operate under sections 392(2) , 400(2) , and 412(2) . Compare: 1964 No 136 s 86J ; 2011 No 62 s 211 ; 2015 No 35 s 4