Development Planning Act (Cap. 552), article 34

34. (1) Where any notice or 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 of his place of work, 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 principal 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 notice or other instrument or document to be served or given in a conspicuous place on the land to which it relates and keeping it so affixed for five working days and by publishing the notice, or other instrument or document in a local newspaper. Where the notice, or other instrument or document to be served or given is affixed on the land but is removed before the expiry period of five working days, the re- affixing of the notice, or other instrument or document shall only be for the remaining period after the document was removed. 20 [CAP. 552. DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (2) Where any 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 shall 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", "occupier", or "owners", "occupiers", as the case may require. (3) A person who at any time after a notice is affixed pursuant to sub-article (1)( e), removes, damages or defaces the notice without lawful authority shall be guilty of an offence against this Act. Savings. Amended by: XXI.2022.4. Cap. 504. Cap. 10.