Part 6Miscellaneous and supplementary

37Service of notices

1

A notice or other document required or authorised to be served for the purposes of this Act may be served by post.

2

Where the person on whom a notice or other document to be served for the purposes of this Act is a body corporate, the notice or document is duly served if it is served on the secretary or clerk of the body.

3

For the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) as it applies for the purpose of this section, the proper address of any person in relation to the service on the person of a notice or document under subsection (1) above is, if the person has given an address for service, that address, and otherwise—

a

in the case of the secretary or clerk of the body corporate, the registered or principal office of that body;

b

in the case of a commoner who is entered in the register, the address for the time being recorded in the register as the commoner’s address; and

c

in any other case the person’s last known address at the time of service.

4

This section shall not be taken to exclude the employment of any method of service not expressly provided for by it.