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23 Provisions as to service.U.K.

(1)Any document required or authorised to be served on any person under this Act or, by virtue of this Act, under any other enactment may be served either by delivering it to that person, or by leaving it at his proper address, or by post, so, however, that the document shall not be duly served by post unless it is sent by registered letter.

(2)Any such document required or authorised to be served upon an incorporated company or body shall be duly served if it is served upon the secretary or clerk of the company or body.

(3)For the purposes of this section and of the application thereto of section twenty-six of the M1Interpretation Act, 1889, the proper address of any person upon whom any such document as aforesaid is to be served shall, in the case of the secretary of clerk of any incorporated company or body, be that of the registered or principal office of the company or body, and in any other case be the last-known address of the person to be served:

Provided that, where the person to be served has furnished an address for service, being an address in the United Kingdom, his proper address for the purposes aforesaid shall be the address furnished.

(4)Where any such document as aforesaid is to be served by a Minister upon the owner, lessee or occupier of any land and that Minister is satisfied in relation to that land that reasonable inquiry has been made and that it is not practicable to ascertain whether or not there is, or what is the name or address of, any person who is the owner, lessee or occupier of that land, the document shall be deemed to have been duly served on any such person on whom it has for that reason not been served in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section if it is addressed to all or such as may be appropriate of the following, that is to say, “the owners”, “any lessee” and “any occupier” of the land (describing it), and is delivered to some responsible person on the land or, where there is no such person on the land to whom it may be delivered, if the document or a copy thereof so addressed is affixed to some conspicuous object on the land.

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