Part III Miscellaneous and General
General
I166 Service of notices.
1
A notice or other document required or authorised to be served for the purposes of this Act may be served by post.
2
Where the person on whom a notice or other document to be served for the purposes of this Act is a body corporate, the notice or document is duly served if it is served on the secretary or clerk of that body.
3
For the purposes of section 7 of the M1Interpretation Act 1978 as it applies for the purposes of this section, the proper address of any person in relation to the service on him of a notice or document under subsection (1) above is, if he has given an address for service, that address, and otherwise—
a
in the case of the secretary or clerk of a body corporate, the registered or principal office of that body;
b
in any other case, his last known address at the time of service.
4
Where for the purposes of this Act 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 address cannot be ascertained after reasonable inquiry, 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 (describing it), 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 the land.
5
This section shall not be taken to exclude the employment of any method of service not expressly provided for by it.
6
This section shall not apply to anything required or authorised to be served under section 35 above.