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FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 18

Notices.

18.(1) Any notice required or authorised by or under this Act to be served on
any person shall be duly served if it is delivered to him, or left at his
proper address, or sent to him by post in a registered letter addressed to him
at that address.

(2) Any notice so required or authorised to be served on an incorporated
company or body shall be duly served if served on the secretary or clerk of
the company or body.

(3) For the purposes of this section and of section twenty-six of the
Interpretation Act, 1889, the proper address of any person on whom any such
notice as aforesaid is to be served shall

(a)where the secretary or clerk of any incorporated company or body is
concerned, be the address of the registered or principal office of the company
or body;

(b)where the person concerned has furnished an address for service, be the
address so furnished;

(c)in any other case, be the last known address of the person concerned.

(4) If it is not practicable to serve a notice as aforesaid on the owner or
occupier of any land, that notice shall be duly served if it is served in
accordance with the provisions of this section, on the authorised agent of
that owner or occupier.

(5) If it is not practicable to ascertain the name or address of an owner or
occupier of land on whom any such notice as aforesaid is to be served, or of
the authorised agent of that owner or occupier, the notice may be served by
addressing it to the owner or occupier by the description of "owner" or
"occupier" of the land (describing it) to which it relates, and by delivering
it to some responsible person on the land, or if there is no such person on
the land to whom it may be delivered, by affixing it or a copy of it to some
conspicuous object on the land.


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