INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 24 Service of documents.

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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 24

Service of documents.

24.(1) Where an enactment authorises or requires a document to be served by
post, whether the word "serve" or any of the words "give", "deliver" or "send"
or any other word is used, the service of the document may be effected by
prepaying, registering and posting an envelope addressed to the person on whom
the document is to be served at his usual or last known place of abode or
business and containing such document; and, unless the contrary is proved, the
document shall be deemed to have been served at the time at which such
envelope would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post.

(2) Where an enactment authorises or requires a document to be served on any
person without directing it to be served in a particular manner the service of
that document may be effected either

(a)by personal service; or

(b)by post in accordance with sub-section (1); or

(c)by leaving it for him with some person apparently over the age of sixteen
at his usual or last known place of abode or business; or

(d)in the case of a corporate body or of any association of persons (whether
incorporated or not), by delivering it to the secretary or clerk of the body
or association at the registered or principal office of the body or
association or serving it by post on such secretary or clerk at such office;
or

(e)if it is not practicable after reasonable enquiry to ascertain the name or
address of an owner, lessee, or occupier of premises on whom the document
should be served, by addressing the document to him by the description of
"owner" or "lessee" or "occupier" of the premises (naming them) to which the
document 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.

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INTERPRETATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - SECT 24