PART 5MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

Service of notices49

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 clerk of that body.

3

For the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 197830 as it applies for the purposes of this article, the proper address of any person in relation to the service on him of a notice or document under paragraph (1) 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; 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 address 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 (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 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.