54Service of documents
(1)Any notice or other document required under this Act to be served on a person carrying on, or intending to carry on, a residential care home, or a nursing home or mental nursing home may be served on him by being delivered personally to him, or being sent by post to him in a registered letter or by the recorded delivery service.
(2)For the purposes of section 7 of the [1978 c. 30.] Interpretation Act 1978 (which defines "service by post") a letter to a person carrying on a residential care home or a nursing home or mental nursing home enclosing a notice or other document under this Act shall be deemed to be properly addressed if it is addressed to him at the home.
(3)Any such notice or other document required to be served on a body corporate or a firm shall be duly served if it is served on the secretary or clerk of that body or a partner of that firm.
(4)For the purposes of this section, and of section 7 of the [1978 c. 30.] Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this section, without prejudice to subsection (2) above, the proper address of a person, in the case of a secretary or clerk of a body corporate, shall be that of the registered or principal office of that body, in the case of a partner of a firm shall be that of the principal office of the firm, and in any other case shall be the last known address of the person to be served.