§ Page 19, line 40, at end insert the following new clause:
§ Service of notices.
§ (". A notice which is required by this Act to be given or sent to any person may be given or sent either—
- (a) by delivering it to the person on whom it is to be served; or
- (b) by leaving is at the usual or last-known place of abode of that person; or
- (c) by sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to that person at his usual or last-known place of abode; or
- (d) in. the case of an incorporated company or body by delivering it to the secretary or clerk of the company or body at their registered or principal office cc sending it in a prepaid registered letter addressed to the secretary or clerk of the company or body at that office; or
- (e) if it is not practicable after reasonable inquiry to ascertain the name or address of an owner or occupier of premises on whom it should be served, or if the premises are unoccupied or the name of the occupier is not known by addressing it to him by the description of 'owner' or 'occupier' of the premises (naming them) to which it relates, and by delivering it to some person on the premises or, if there is no person on the premises to whom it can be delivered, by affixing it or a copy of it to some conspicuous part of the premises.")
§ THE EARL OF PLYMOUTHMy Lords, this is a purely machinery clause. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment.
§ Moved, That ibis House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(The Earl of Plymouth.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.