Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Method of serving documents :– (1) When any notice or order document is required by this Act, or by any rule, regulation, bye-law or order made under it, to be served on, or sent to, any person, the service or sending thereof may by effected – (a) by giving or tendering the said documents to such person; or (b) if such person is not found, by leaving such document at his last known place of abode, or business, or by going or tendering the same to some adult member or servant of his family; (c) if such person does not reside in the local area and his address elsewhere is known to the Executive Officer, by sending the same to him by posts registered; or (d) if none of the means aforesaid be available by fixing the same in some conspicuous part of such place of abode or business. (2) When the person is an owner or occupier of any building or land it shall not be necessary to name the owner or occupier in the document and in the case of joint owners and occupiers, it shall be sufficient to serve it on, or send it to, one of such owners or occupiers. (3) Whenever in any notice, form or other documents, served or sent under this Act, a period is fixed within which any tax or other sum is to be paid or any work executed or anything provided, such period shall, in the absence from this Act of any distinct provision to the contrary, be calculated from the date of such service or sending.