111Service of notices

111 Service of notices

111 Service of notices

(1) This section applies to a notice under this regulation.

(2) For the Act, section 394(1), a notice to the following may be served in the following way—

(a) to a public service agency—on the head of the agency,

(b) to a statutory corporation—

(i) by leaving the notice at the statutory corporation’s principal place of business with a person who appears to be employed there and to be at least 16 years old, or

(ii) in any manner authorised by or under the Act by which the corporation is constituted,

(c) to a person liable for payment of a service charge or other charge, or to a person who is owner or occupier of land or a building—

(i) by sending the notice by post to the person’s business address or business address last known to the water supply authority serving the notice,

(ii) by leaving the notice at the person’s business address with a person who appears to be employed or to reside there and to be at least 16 years old,

(iii) by affixing the notice to a conspicuous part of the building,

(d) to a person who appears to be absent from the State and has authorised service on an agent—by serving the notice on the agent,

(e) to an owner in relation to unoccupied land for which the address of the owner is unknown to the water supply authority—by an advertisement that—

(i) is published in a newspaper circulating in the area of the water supply authority, and

(ii) states the name of the owner of the land, if known to the water supply authority, and

(iii) if the notice is notice of a service charge, states the amount of the service charge, the period to which the charge relates and that a detailed notice of the service charge may be obtained at the water supply authority’s offices, and

(iv) states that the advertisement operates as service of the notice,

(3) It is a sufficient description of the addressee of a notice to be served if the notice specifies “the owner”, “the occupier” or another appropriate description.