The Leicestershire County Council (Ashby de la Zouch Canal Extension) Order 2005

Service of notices

34.—(1) A notice or other document required or authorised to be served for the purposes of this Order may be served by post.

(2) Where the person on whom a notice or other document to be served for the purposes of this Order is a body corporate, the notice or document is duly served if it is served on the secretary or director of the body or, in the case of a local authority, a proper officer of that authority.

(3) For the purpose of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1), the proper address of any person for the purposes of the service on him of a notice or document under paragraph (1) above is, if he has given an address for service, that address, and otherwise—

(a) in the case of the secretary or a proper officer of a body corporate, the registered or principal office of that body; and

(b) in any other case, his last known address at the time of service.

(4) Where for the purposes of this Order a notice or other document is required or authorised to be served on a person as having any interest in, or as the occupier of, land and his name or last known address at the time of service cannot be ascertained after reasonable enquiry, the notice may be served by—

(a) addressing it to him by name or by the description of “owner”, or (as the case may be) “occupier”, of the land and describing that land in the notice; and

(b) either leaving it in the hands of a person who is, or appears to be, resident or employed on the land, or leaving it conspicuously affixed to some building or object on or near the land.

(5) This article shall not be taken to exclude the employment of any method of service not expressly provided for by it.

(1)

1978 c. 30.