Serving of notices

(1) Any notice required to be given by a licence holder to any person for the purpose of any provision of this Act shall be in a form approved by the Commission and considered adequate for indicating to that person– (a) the effect of the notice; (b) such provision of this Act as is relevant to the notice; and (c) the steps to be taken by that person. (2) Any notice required to be given to any person for the purposes of any provision of this Act may be given to him either by delivering it to him or by leaving it at his proper address or by post, but a notice shall not be given by post unless it is sent by registered letter or by the recorded delivery service. (3) Any notice required to be given under this Act may be given to an incorporated company or body by giving it to the secretary or clerk of the company or body. 47 (4) For the purposes of this section, the proper address of a person for service by post shall be– (a) if the person to whom the notice is to be given has furnished the person giving the notice with an address for service under this Act, that address; (b) in a case not falling under paragraph (a) above, where the person to whom the notice is to be given is an incorporated company or body, the registered or principal office of the company or body; and (c) in any other case, the last known address of the person to whom the notice is to be given. (5) Where it is not practicable, for the purposes of giving any notice under this Act, after reasonable inquiries to ascertain the name and address of– (a) the person who is for the purposes of any provision of this Act the occupier of any land; or (b) the owner of any interest in any land; a notice may be given under this Act by addressing it to a person by the description of “occupier” of the land (describing it) or, as the case may be, “owner” of the interest (describing both the interest and the land) and by delivering it to some person on the land or, if there is no person on the land to whom it can be delivered, by affixing it, or a copy of it, to some conspicuous object on the land. (6) In any proceedings under this Act, a certificate purporting to be signed on behalf of the Commission and stating that a particular form of notice has been approved by it as 48 mentioned in sub-section (1), shall be conclusive evidence of the matter certified. etc.