Service of notices, etc

(1) A document or notice required or permitted to be served on, or given to, a person, under or for the purposes of this Act, may be served or given– (a) in the case of an individual, other than the Minister or the Inspector, by serving it personally upon the individual or by sending it by post to him at his usual or last known place of abode or business or at the address kept pursuant to section 64; (b) in the case of the Minister or the Inspector, in the manner prescribed; or (c) in the case of a body corporate– (i) by leaving it at the registered or principal office of the body corporate with some individual employed by the body corporate and not less than sixteen years of age; (ii) by sending it by post to the body corporate at the registered or principal office of the body corporate; or (iii) by delivering it to some individual in the employment or acting on behalf of the body corporate, or who agrees to 17 accept service of or to receive the notice or any document. (2) For the purpose of sub-section (1) (c), the principal office of a body corporate incorporated outside Belize is its principal office within Belize or the address kept pursuant to section 64. (3) Where a person has more than one place of abode or business, a document or notice may be served on or given to the person under this section at any of those places. (4) Where a document or notice is sent by post pursuant to this section, service or notice is deemed to have been effected or given under this section, unless the contrary is proved, at the time at which the document or notice would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.