Summary

The Traffic Safety Amendment Act, 2024 changes how government documents related to traffic safety matters can be legally served to Saskatchewan residents. The bill allows the government to add new methods of service beyond personal delivery and mail through regulations, and to set deemed receipt dates for those new methods.

Currently, if SGI or the government needs to notify you about a traffic safety matter (such as a licence suspension, registration issue, or violation), they must either hand-deliver the notice or mail it to your last known address. This bill allows the government to add other notification methods through regulations without needing to pass another law. For example, regulations could allow service by email, text message, online portal, or other electronic means. The bill also lets regulations set the date when you are legally considered to have received the notice for each new method. The bill does not specify what new methods will be added or when you would be deemed to have received them, those details would be determined later in regulations made by cabinet.