Section 30: Formal provisions as to acknowledgments and part payments.

To be effective for the purposes of section 29 of this Act, an acknowledgment must be in writing and signed by the person making it.

For the purposes of section 29, any acknowledgment or payment—

(a) may be made by the agent of the person by whom it is required to be made under that section; and

(b) shall be made to the person, or to an agent of the person, whose title or claim is being acknowledged or, as the case may be, in respect of whose claim the payment is being made.