Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1994 No. 46 OFFSHORE MINERALS (BALLOT PROCEDURES) REGULATIONS - REG 4

4. (1) An application for an exploration licence or a mining licence is taken
to have been lodged if it is lodged at the principal office:

   (a)  by post; or

   (b)  by personal delivery to an officer or employee of the Department
        concerned; or

   (c)  by electronic message sent to a receiving facility at the office,
        being a message in a form that is compatible with, and capable of
        being recorded by, that facility.

(2) An application lodged by post or personal delivery is taken to have been
lodged at the time of its delivery in office hours.

(3) An application to which paragraph (1) (c) refers that is lodged in
office hours is taken to have been lodged when recording of the application by
the recording facility has been completed.

(4) An application to which paragraph (1) (c) refers that is:

   (a)  lodged outside office hours; and

   (b)  recorded by the recording facility; is taken to have been lodged at
        the next commencement of office hours.