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"(2) The regulations may prescribe different ways of communicating and specify the circumstances when communication is to be in a particular way.

"(3) If the applicant purports to communicate anything to the Minister in a way that is not the prescribed way, the communication is taken not to have been received unless the Minister in fact receives it.

Communication of Minister with applicant

"26U.(1) A visa applicant is to tell the Minister the address at which the applicant intends to live while the application is being dealt with.

"(2) If the applicant proposes to change the address at which he intends to live for at least 14 days, the applicant must tell the Minister the address and the period of proposed residence.

"(3) If the Minister sends or leaves a notification to the applicant at the address for the applicant given under subsection (1) or (2), the notification is taken to have been received by the applicant even if it was not received.

"(4) A visa applicant may tell the Minister that a specified person at a specified address may be given notifications for the applicant about the application.

"(5) If the Minister has been given the name and address of a person under subsection (4), the Minister may give, but is not required to give, notifications to the applicant by giving them to that person at that address and a notification so given is taken to have been received by the applicant.

"(6) If, in accordance with the regulations, 2 or more non-citizens apply for visas together, notifications given to any of them about the application are taken to be given to each of them.

Application may be decided on basis of information in application

"26V.(1) Subject to this Subdivision, a visa application may be decided on the basis of the information given in it.

"(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), information is in an application if, and only if, the information is set out in the application or in a document attached to it when it is made.

"(3) Without limiting subsection (1), a decision about an application may be made without giving the applicant an opportunity to make oral or written submissions.

Further information may be given

"26W.(1) Until the Minister has made a decision whether to approve or refuse an application for a visa, the applicant may give the Minister any additional relevant information and the Minister must have regard to that information in making the decision.

"(2) Subsection (1) does not mean that the Minister is required to delay making a decision because the applicant might give, or has told the Minister that the applicant intends to give, further information.

Further information may