http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/322Highways Act 1980An Act to consolidate the Highways Acts 1959 to 1971 and related enactments, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission.1981-03-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-03-18Expert Participation2026-03-13 Part XIV Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions Notices, <Abbreviation Expansion="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</Abbreviation> Service of notices etc.3221Any notice, consent, approval, order, demand, licence, certificate or other document required or authorised by or under this Act to be given or served on a corporation is duly given or served if it is given to or served on the secretary or clerk of the corporation.2Subject to the provisions of this section, any notice, consent, approval, order, demand, licence, certificate or other document required or authorised by or under this Act to be given or served on any person may be given or served either—aby delivering it to that person, orbby leaving it at his proper address, orcby post;so, however, that where any such document is sent by post otherwise than in a registered letter, or by the recorded delivery service, it shall be deemed not to have been given or served if it is proved that it was not received by the person to whom it was addressed.3For the purposes of this section, and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this section, the proper address of any person to or on whom any such document is to be given or served—awhere the person has furnished an address for service in accordance with arrangements agreed to in that behalf, is the address furnished;bwhere the person has not furnished an address as provided by paragraph (a) above, isiin the case of the secretary or clerk of a corporation, that of the registered or principal office of the corporation, andiiin any other case, the person’s usual or last known place of abode.4If the name or the address of any owner, lessee or occupier of premises to or on whom any such document is to be given or served cannot after reasonable inquiry be ascertained by the person seeking to give or serve the document, the document may be given or served by—aaddressing it to the person to whom it is to be given or on whom it is to be served by the description of “owner”, “lessee”, or “occupier” of the premises (describing them) to which the document relates, andbdelivering it to some responsible person resident or appearing to be resident on the premises or if there is no such person to whom it can be delivered, affixing it or a copy of it to some conspicuous part of the premises.5The foregoing provisions of this section do not apply to the service of—aa notice required or authorised to be served under Part II of, or Schedule 1 to, the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 as applied by this Act, orba summons.S. 322 applied (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 25(1)(2); S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3, Sch.1978 c. 30. Words substituted by Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67, SIF 28:1), s. 34, Sch. 4 para. 31(14)