Any notice to be given by the Authority under this Part of this Act, or under any scheme or any regulations under this Part of this Act, shall be in writing.

Any notice to be given as aforesaid to any person shall be deemed to have been duly given if it is addressed to him either by name or by a sufficient description of the character in which it is given to him, and is delivered at the proper address, and in the case of a notice to be given to the master of a vessel engaged in catching or processing sea fish or transporting sea fish or the products of sea fish shall be deemed to have been duly given to him if it is given to, or to the agent of, the owner or the charterer (if any) of the vessel together with a written request that it be transmitted to the master.

Subsection (2) above shall not be taken to prejudice any other method of giving notice.

For the purposes of this section, the proper address of any person to whom a notice is to be given as aforesaid shall be the address furnished by him for the purpose or, if no address has been so furnished, his last known address.