When an agency cannot deliver a document to a person, what notice must it publish, and where?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
For this exercise we read the envelope or postal record returned to the agency, which shows that ordinary attempts to reach the address failed, the text of the published notice, and the record of the document's name, recipient and dispatch the agency keeps.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading holds that once either condition is met — the recipient's address cannot be confirmed by ordinary means, or delivery is impossible — the agency shall publish in at least one of the official gazette, public bulletin, notice board or daily newspaper, and must publish on the Internet as well, in a form the recipient can easily see.
Another reading stresses the condition on what may be published: the notice must protect the recipient's sensitive personal data and unique identifiers in line with the Personal Information Protection Act, so what appears in the gazette or newspaper is narrower than what the provision otherwise permits.
Your judgment
What in the file could show that the address could not be confirmed by ordinary means rather than that the agency simply did not try all channels?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change the media required or the personal-data condition, or if a court decision explains what counts as delivery being impossible.