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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 under any ACRA administered Act at the alternate address is not effective to bring it to the notice of the individual.

(9) Before proceeding under subsection (8), the Registrar must give notice to the relevant individual—

(a) stating the grounds on which the Registrar proposes to disclose and make available for public inspection the individual’s residential address; and
(b) specifying a period within which representations may be made before that is done.

(10) The Registrar is to consider the representations received within the specified period.

(11) Where the Registrar discloses and makes available for public inspection the particulars of an individual’s residential address, the Registrar must give notice of that fact to the individual.

(12) A notice to an individual under subsection (9) or (11) is to be sent to the individual at his or her 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.

(13) Where—

(a) the Registrar discloses and makes available for public inspection the particulars of an individual’s residential address under subsection (8); or
(b) a Registrar appointed under another ACRA administered Act discloses and makes available for public inspection under that Act the particulars of an individual’s residential address under a provision of that Act equivalent to subsection (8),

that individual is not, for a period of 3 years after the date on which the residential address is disclosed and made available for public