Any document required or authorised by virtue of this Act to be served on any person may be served—
For the purposes of this section and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to the service of documents by post) in its application to this section, the proper address of any person on whom a document is to be served shall be his last known address, except that—
and for the purposes of this subsection the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom is its principal office within the United Kingdom.
If a person to be served by virtue of this Act with any document by another has specified to that other an address within the United Kingdom other than his proper address (as determined in pursuance of subsection (2) above) as the one at which he or someone on his behalf will accept documents of the same description as that document, that address shall also be treated as his proper address for the purposes of this section and for the purposes of the said section 7 in its application to this section.
Where under any provision of this Act any document is required to be served on the owner, on a lessee or on the occupier of any premises then—
that document may be served either by leaving it in the hands of a person who is or appears to be resident or employed on the land or by leaving it conspicuously affixed to some building or object on the land.
Any document required or authorised by virtue of this Act to be served on any person may be served by electronic means.
But a document may be served by electronic means on a person who is a consumer only if—
For the purposes of subsection (4B) "consumer" means a person who is liable to pay charges in respect of—
but does not include a water undertaker, a water supply licensee, a sewerage undertaker, a sewerage licensee, or the Authority.
This section shall not apply to any document in relation to the service of which provision is made by rules of court.