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Procedure where certificate-debtor refuses to accept service or cannot be found.-Where the certificate- debtor or his agent, or such other person as aforesaid refuses to sign the acknowledgment, or where the serving officer, after using all due and reasonable diligence, cannot find the certificate-debtor, and there is no agent empowered to accept service of the notice on his behalf, nor any other person on whom service can be made, the serving officer shall- (a) affix a copy of the notice on the outer door or some other conspicuous part of the house in which the certificate-debtor ordinarily resides or carries on business or personally works for gain, or (b) if there be land affected by the notice, affix a copy of the-notice on some conspicuous place in the office of the Certificate Officer and also on some conspicuous part of the land, and shall then return the original to the Certificate Officer by whom it was issued, with a report endorsed thereon or annexed thereto stating that he has so affixed the copy, the circumstances under which he did so, and the name and address of the person (if any) by whom the house or land was identified and in whose presence the copy was affixed.