§ Any notice or other document required by or under this Act to be served on any person shall, unless he proves that it was not received by him, be deemed to have been duly served on him if it was sent by registered letter addressed to him at his last known place of business, and any such notice requiring any person to furnish any information may require him to make a statutory declaration as to the truth of the information furnished.—[Sir J. Gilmour.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
§ Sir J. GILMOURI beg to move, "That the Clause be read a Second time."
This Clause is for the purpose of applying generally to the Bill the provisions regarding the service of documents and power to require statutory declarations, which were previously limited, by the terms of Sub-section (5) of Clause 10 to that Clause, which deals with the Wheat Commission's power to obtain information. The insertion of this Clause will involve a consequential Amendment in page 18, line 7, to leave out Subsection (5) of Clause 10, the place of which will be taken by this Clause. It will be necessary for me to serve notices in a variety of circumstances, and it is desirable that the powers should not be limited to any one Section of the Measure.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill.