Service of a notice affecting land which would be effective but for the death of the intended recipient is effective despite his death if the person serving the notice has no reason to believe that he has died.
Where the person serving a notice affecting land has no reason to believe that the intended recipient has died, the proper address for the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents by post) shall be what would be the proper address apart from his death.
The above provisions do not apply to a notice authorised or required to be served for the purposes of proceedings before—
but this is without prejudice to the power to make provision in relation to such proceedings by rules of court, procedural rules of any tribunal referred to in sub-paragraph (b) or rules under the Land Registration Act 2002.