HC Deb 16 November 1944 vol 404 cc2210-1

Lords Amendment: In page 55, line 34, leave out paragraphs (f) and (g), and insert: Provided that a notice or other document that is required or authorised to be served on or given to a person as having an interest in, or being an occupier of, any premises shall be deemed to be duly served on that person,—

  1. (i) where he is a person having an interest and his name cannot be ascertained after reasonable inquiry, or where he is an occupier, if it is addressed to him by the description of 'the owner' or 'the occupier' as the case may be, of the premises (describing them) and delivered, left or sent as mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this Section;
  2. (ii) where he is a person having an interest and his address cannot be ascertained after reasonable inquiry, or where he is an occupier, if the notice or other document (addressed to him either by name or in accordance with paragraph (i) of this proviso, and marked in such manner as may be prescribed for securing that it shall be plainly identifiable as a communication of importance) is sent in a prepaid registered letter to those premises and is not returned to the authority sending it, or is delivered to some person on those premises, or is affixed conspicuously to some object on those premises;
and where a notice or other document is required to be served on or given to all persons having interest in, or being occupiers of, premises comprised in any land, and any of that land appears to the authority required to serve or give the notice or other document to be unoccupied, it shall be deemed to he duly served on all persons having interests in, and of all occupiers (if any) of, premises comprised in the land so appearing to the authority (other than an owner who in accordance with the provisions of this Act in that behalf has furnished the authority with an address for service of the notice on him) if it is addressed to 'the owners and any occupiers' of the land so appearing (describing it) and marked as aforesaid and is affixed conspicuously to some object on that land

Mr. W. S. Morrison

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment." This is a purely drafting and machinery Amendment, a redrafting of some proposals already before us regarding notice, picking up several suggestions made by hon. Members in the course of the Debate.

Question put, and agreed to.