s 30D Cessation of exclusion of residential address from public disclosure
30D.—(1) For the purposes of section 30C(2), the grounds for causing an individual’s residential address to cease to be excluded from public disclosure are either that —(a) communications sent by any officer of the Authority under this Act, or by the Registrar or any officer of the Authority under any scheduled Act, to the individual at his or her contact address and requiring a response within a specified period remain unanswered; or (b) there is evidence to show that service of any document under this Act or any scheduled Act at the individual’s contact address is not effective to bring it to the notice of the individual. (2) Before causing an individual’s residential address to cease to be excluded from public disclosure pursuant to section 30C(2), the Registrar must give a notice under subsection (3) to the individual and the interested persons specified in the Sixth Schedule (if any). (3) The notice mentioned in subsection (2) must —(a) state the grounds under subsection (1) on which the Registrar intends to cease the exclusion of the individual’s residential address; and (b) specify the period within which representations may be made to the Registrar. (4) The Registrar must consider the representations (if any) given in response to the notice mentioned in subsection (2) and received within the period specified by the Registrar under subsection (3)(b). (5) If the Registrar decides to cause the individual’s residential address to cease being excluded from public disclosure, the Registrar must before doing so give notice of the decision to the individual and the interested persons specified in the Sixth Schedule (if any). (6) A notice to the individual under subsection (2) or (5) must be sent to the individual’s residential address unless it appears to the Registrar that service at that address may be ineffective to bring it to the individual’s notice, in which case it may be sent to any other last known address of that individual. (7) Any person aggrieved by the decision of the Registrar under section 30C(2) may, within 30 days after the date of receiving the notice under subsection (5), appeal to the Court which may confirm or reverse the Registrar’s decision and make any directions in the matter. (8) The individual is not allowed to provide a contact address within 3 years after the Registrar causes the individual’s residential address to cease to be excluded from public disclosure, unless the Registrar is satisfied that there is good cause for allowing the individual to do so in a particular case. (9) Subject to subsections (8) and (10), where an individual provides a new contact address under this Act or any scheduled Act, the Registrar must replace the individual’s contact address in the repository mentioned in section 6(1)(c) with the new contact address. (10) Subsection (9) does not require the replacement of the individual’s contact address in any document kept in the repository.[Act 21 of 2024 wef 09/12/2024]