73Service of notices

#### 73 Service of notices (1) Subject to this section, a notice required under this Act to be given to a person shall be served either personally or by post on the person. (2) A notice under this Act that is posted, as a letter, to a person at the last address of the person known to the Commission shall, for the purposes of the application of section 29 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 in relation to subsection (1), be deemed to be properly addressed to the person. (3) Where: (a) the Commission is unable, after diligent inquiry, to ascertain the identity of the owner of any land; or (b) service of a notice under this Act on the owner of any land cannot be effected either personally or by post; service of the notice may be effected by causing a copy of the notice to be published in a newspaper circulating in the district in which the land, or part of the land, is situated and: (c) if the land is occupied—giving a copy of the notice to the occupier; or (d) if the land is not occupied—affixing, if practicable, a copy of the notice to a conspicuous part of the land. (4) Where the Commission is unable, after diligent inquiry, to ascertain: (a) whether any land is occupied; or (b) the identity of the person occupying any land; it may treat the land as being unoccupied. (5) Where service of a notice under this Act on the occupier of any land cannot be effected either personally or by post, service of the notice may be effected by: (a) causing a copy of the notice to be published in a newspaper circulating in the district in which the land, or part of the land, is situated; and (b) affixing, if practicable, a copy of the notice to a conspicuous part of the land.