Opencast Coal Act 1958

3 (1) Subject to the next following sub-paragraph, where the notice or other document is required to be served on or given to all persons having interests (or interests of a specified description) in any land, or being occupiers of any land, and it appears to the person required or authorised to serve or give the notice or other document that any part of that land is unoccupied, the notice or other document shall be deemed to be duly served on all persons having interests (or the relevant interests, as the case may be) in that part of the land and on any occupiers of that part of the land (other than a person who has given an address for the service of the notice on him) if it is addressed to " the owners and any occupiers " of that part of the land (describing it) and is affixed conspicuously to some object on the land.

(2) This paragraph shall not apply to any notice required to be served or given under the First Schedule to this Act, or under the provisions of the First Schedule to the Acquisition of Land Act, or the Scottish Acquisition of Land Act, as applied, in relation to compulsory rights orders, by section four of this Act.