- Latest available (Revised)
- Original (As enacted)
Land Powers (Defence) Act 1958
You are here:
What Version
Advanced Features
- Show Geographical Extent(e.g. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland)
- Show Timeline of Changes
Opening Options
More Resources
Changes to legislation:
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Land Powers (Defence) Act 1958, Section 23.
Changes to Legislation
Revised legislation carried on this site may not be fully up to date. At the current time any known changes or effects made by subsequent legislation have been applied to the text of the legislation you are viewing by the editorial team. Please see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ for details regarding the timescales for which new effects are identified and recorded on this site.
23 Provisions as to service.U.K.
(1)Any document required or authorised to be served on any person under this Act or, by virtue of this Act, under any other enactment may be served either by delivering it to that person, or by leaving it at his proper address, or by post, so, however, that the document shall not be duly served by post unless it is sent by registered letter.
(2)Any such document required or authorised to be served upon an incorporated company or body shall be duly served if it is served upon the secretary or clerk of the company or body.
(3)For the purposes of this section and of the application thereto of section twenty-six of the M1Interpretation Act, 1889, the proper address of any person upon whom any such document as aforesaid is to be served shall, in the case of the secretary of clerk of any incorporated company or body, be that of the registered or principal office of the company or body, and in any other case be the last-known address of the person to be served:
Provided that, where the person to be served has furnished an address for service, being an address in the United Kingdom, his proper address for the purposes aforesaid shall be the address furnished.
(4)Where any such document as aforesaid is to be served by a Minister upon the owner, lessee or occupier of any land and that Minister is satisfied in relation to that land that reasonable inquiry has been made and that it is not practicable to ascertain whether or not there is, or what is the name or address of, any person who is the owner, lessee or occupier of that land, the document shall be deemed to have been duly served on any such person on whom it has for that reason not been served in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this section if it is addressed to all or such as may be appropriate of the following, that is to say, “the owners”, “any lessee” and “any occupier” of the land (describing it), and is delivered to some responsible person on the land or, where there is no such person on the land to whom it may be delivered, if the document or a copy thereof so addressed is affixed to some conspicuous object on the land.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 23(1) amended by Recorded Delivery Service Act 1962 (c. 27), s. 1, Sch. para. 1
Marginal Citations
Options/Help
Print Options
PrintThe Whole Act
PrintThe Whole Cross Heading
PrintThis Section only
Legislation is available in different versions:
Latest Available (revised):The latest available updated version of the legislation incorporating changes made by subsequent legislation and applied by our editorial team. Changes we have not yet applied to the text, can be found in the ‘Changes to Legislation’ area.
Original (As Enacted or Made): The original version of the legislation as it stood when it was enacted or made. No changes have been applied to the text.
See additional information alongside the content
Geographical Extent: Indicates the geographical area that this provision applies to. For further information see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’.
Show Timeline of Changes: See how this legislation has or could change over time. Turning this feature on will show extra navigation options to go to these specific points in time. Return to the latest available version by using the controls above in the What Version box.
Opening Options
Different options to open legislation in order to view more content on screen at once
More Resources
Access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item from this tab. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:
- the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy
- lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item
- confers power and blanket amendment details
- all formats of all associated documents
- correction slips
- links to related legislation and further information resources
Timeline of Changes
This timeline shows the different points in time where a change occurred. The dates will coincide with the earliest date on which the change (e.g an insertion, a repeal or a substitution) that was applied came into force. The first date in the timeline will usually be the earliest date when the provision came into force. In some cases the first date is 01/02/1991 (or for Northern Ireland legislation 01/01/2006). This date is our basedate. No versions before this date are available. For further information see the Editorial Practice Guide and Glossary under Help.
More Resources
Use this menu to access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:
- the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy
- correction slips
Click 'View More' or select 'More Resources' tab for additional information including:
- lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item
- confers power and blanket amendment details
- all formats of all associated documents
- links to related legislation and further information resources
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions. For more information see the EUR-Lex public statement on re-use.