sec.125Service of notices, documents etc.

### sec.125 Service of notices, documents etc. Save where any other provision of this Act otherwise provides, any direction, order, requisition or notice in writing or any other document or writing ( a document ) required or authorised by this Act to be given to or served upon any person shall be taken to have been duly given or served if— it is served personally on the person to whom it is directed or on a person authorised by that person, either generally or in a particular case, to accept service of documents on the person’s behalf; or it is left at the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives or serves it; or it is sent by post to the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives or serves it; or where a manner of service is prescribed by any other Act or law in relation to a person or class of person—it is served in the manner so prescribed. Where any document is given or served, the person who gives or serves it may attend before a justice and depose on oath and in writing endorsed on a copy of the document to the manner of service thereof showing therein the date of personal service, leaving, posting or service in other manner prescribed as aforesaid, as the case may be, of such document. Every such deposition shall upon production in court be evidence of the matters contained therein and shall be sufficient proof of the giving or service of such document to or on the person to whom it is directed. s 125 amd 2002 No. 43 s 112 sch 2 (sec.125-ssec.1) Save where any other provision of this Act otherwise provides, any direction, order, requisition or notice in writing or any other document or writing ( a document ) required or authorised by this Act to be given to or served upon any person shall be taken to have been duly given or served if— it is served personally on the person to whom it is directed or on a person authorised by that person, either generally or in a particular case, to accept service of documents on the person’s behalf; or it is left at the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives or serves it; or it is sent by post to the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives or serves it; or where a manner of service is prescribed by any other Act or law in relation to a person or class of person—it is served in the manner so prescribed. (sec.125-ssec.2) Where any document is given or served, the person who gives or serves it may attend before a justice and depose on oath and in writing endorsed on a copy of the document to the manner of service thereof showing therein the date of personal service, leaving, posting or service in other manner prescribed as aforesaid, as the case may be, of such document. (sec.125-ssec.3) Every such deposition shall upon production in court be evidence of the matters contained therein and shall be sufficient proof of the giving or service of such document to or on the person to whom it is directed. - (a) it is served personally on the person to whom it is directed or on a person authorised by that person, either generally or in a particular case, to accept service of documents on the person’s behalf; or - (b) it is left at the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives or serves it; or - (c) it is sent by post to the place of residence or business of the person to whom it is directed last known to the person who gives or serves it; or - (d) where a manner of service is prescribed by any other Act or law in relation to a person or class of person—it is served in the manner so prescribed.