Environment Protection Act (Cap. 549), article 86

86. (1) Where any notice, order, other instrument or document whatsoever is required or authorised to be served or given by o r under this Act, it may be served or given in any of the followi ng manners: (a) by delivering it to the person on whom it is to be served or to whom it is to be given; or (b) by leaving it at the usual or last known place of abode of that person or, if such person has furnished an address for service, at that address; or (c) by sending it in a registered letter addressed to that person at the place of abode or the address for service aforesaid; or (d) in the case of a body corporate or other body of persons, by delivering it to an officer or servant thereof at the registered or p rincipal office, or sending it in a registered letter addressed to the body aforesaid at that office; or (e) in any case in which it is not reasonably possible to effect service in any of the foregoing manners whether on all or on any one or more of the persons on whom service is to be made or notice is to be given, by affixing the document to be served or given in a conspicuous place on the land to which it relates and keeping it so affixed for a period of not less than seven days; or (f) in any case in which it is not reasonably possible to effect service in any of th e manners prescribed in ( a) to ( e) whether on all or on any one or more of the persons on whom service is to be made or notice is to be given, by publication in a local newspaper; or (g) where the order, notice, or other document to be served or given is affixed on the land but is removed before the expiry period of seven d ays, the reaffixing of the order, notice or other document shall only be for the remaining period after th e document was removed. (2) Where the notice or other document is required or authorised to be served or given to any person as having an int erest in land, and the name of that person cannot be ascertained afte r reasonable inquiry, or is required or authorised to be served o n an occupier of land, the notice sha ll be deemed to be duly served or given if it is served or given in any of the manners indicated in sub- article (1) and addressed to the person having an interest in t he land by the description of "owner" or "occupier", or "owners" or "occupiers", as the case may require. (3) A person who at any time after an order, notice or other document is affixed pursuant to this article, removes, damages or defaces the said affixed order, notice or other document during its term of validity without lawful authority shall be guilty of an 64 [CAP. 549. ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION offence and shall be subject to a fine according to the provisi ons of article 82. Saving. Cap. 504.