7Provision as to notices
(1)Any notice required or authorised to be served under this Act shall be in writing.
(2)Any such notice may be served either—
(a)by delivering it to the person on whom it is to be served or to his known agent; or
(b)by sending it in a prepaid registered letter addressed to that person at his usual or last known place of abode; or
(c)in the case of an incorporated company or body, by delivering it to the secretary or clerk, manager or other principal officer of the company or body at their registered or principal office or sending it in a prepaid registered letter addressed to the secretary or other officer of the company or body at that office.
A written acknowledgement of receipt by any person to whom a notice has been delivered in pursuance of the foregoing provisions, and a certificate by any person that he posted a registered letter containing a notice in the terms specified in the certificate, accompanied by an acknowledgement or certificate of the delivery of the registered letter issued by the Postmaster-General in pursuance of regulations under the [8 Edw. 7. c. 48.] Post Office Act, 1908, shall be sufficient evidence of the service of the notice.