Service of notices

(1) Where a notice is required or permitted by this Act to be given to or served upon a person, the notice shall be in writing and may be given or served– (a) in the case of a notice addressed to a person other than a company - by serving it upon him personally or by sending it by registered post addressed to him at his usual or last known place of abode or business; and (b) in the case of a notice addressed to a company - by serving it personally upon the person last known to the Supervisor as being a director or the principal representative or officer of the company or by sending it by licensed registered post addressed to him at his address last known to the Supervisor or to the address filed with the Supervisor under section 9 (1), and if it is so sent by post, shall be deemed to have been given or served on the date on which it would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post. (2) In this section, “company” includes a body corporate which has ceased to carry on insurance business in Belize.