Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If an owner of rateable land is known to be absent from the State, a local government may serve a document on the owner by serving the document on the owner's agent in the State.
(2) Subsection (3) applies if—
(a) a local government must serve a document on a person who owns or occupies a property; but
(b) the local government does not know, or is uncertain about, the person's current address.
(3) The local government may serve the document by—
(a) publishing a notice that contains a summary of the document in—
(i) a newspaper that is circulating generally throughout the State; and
(ii) the gazette; and
(b) publishing a notice that contains a copy of the document on the local government's website.
(4) The notice must be addressed to—
(a) if the local government knows the person's name—the person by name; or
(b) if the local government does not know the person's name—the 'owner' or 'occupier' at the property's address.