Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115:reg:3:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00115
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 5/79)
Character Range: 432393–434822

(i) Immigration must try to find the person; and
 (ii) the Minister must give the document in one of the ways mentioned in subregulation (3).
 (4A) If the person is a minor:
 (a) the Minister must give a designated document in 1 of the ways mentioned in subregulation (3A); and
 (b) if the minor has held the visa for at least 1 year when the document is to be given, Immigration must try to find the minor.

Document given to carer is taken to be given to minor
 (4B) If the Minister gives a document to a carer of the minor in accordance with this regulation, the Minister is taken to have given the document to the minor.
 (4C) Nothing in subregulation (4B) prevents the Minister giving the minor a copy of the document.

When document is taken to be received
 (5) If the Minister gives a document to a person by handing it to the person, the person is taken to have received the document when it is handed to the person.
 (6) If the Minister gives a document to a person by handing it to another person at a residential or business address, the person is taken to have received the document when it is handed to the other person.
 (7) If the Minister gives a document to a person by dispatching it by prepaid post or by other prepaid means, the person is taken to have received the document:
 (a) if the document was dispatched from a place in Australia to an address in Australia—7 working days (in the place of that address) after the date of the document; or
 (b) in any other case—21 days after the date of the document.
 (8) If the Minister gives a document to a person by transmitting it by fax, email or other electronic means, the person is taken to have received the document at the end of the day on which the document is transmitted.
 (9) If:
 (a) the Minister purports to give a document to a person by a method specified in this regulation but makes an error in doing so; and
 (b) the person nonetheless receives the document or a copy of the document;
the Minister is taken to have given the document to the person and the person is taken to have received the document:
 (c) at the time specified by this regulation for that method; or
 (d) if the person can show that he or she received the document at a later time—at that later time.

Part 2A—Sponsorship applicable to Division 3A of Part 2 of the Act

Division 2.11—Introductory

2.56  Application
  For section 140A of the Act, Division 3A of Part 2 of the