Part 6

Miscellaneous and supplementary

Service of notices
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1
A notice or other document required or authorised to be served for the purposes of this Act may be served by post.
2
Where the person on whom a notice or other document to be served for the purposes of this Act is a body corporate, the notice or document is duly served if it is served on the secretary or clerk of the body.
3
For the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) as it applies for the purpose of this section, the proper address of any person in relation to the service on the person of a notice or document under subsection (1) above is, if the person has given an address for service, that address, and otherwise—
a
in the case of the secretary or clerk of the body corporate, the registered or principal office of that body;
b
in the case of a commoner who is entered in the register, the address for the time being recorded in the register as the commoner’s address; and
c
in any other case the person’s last known address at the time of service.
4
This section shall not be taken to exclude the employment of any method of service not expressly provided for by it.