Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975 No. 55 of 1975 - SECT 98

98. (1) Subject to sub-section (4), a notice or other document required to be
served under this Act may be served personally or by post.

(2) Service by post of a notice or other document upon the owner or occupier
of land may be effected by sending the notice or other document to the owner
or occupier by pre-paid registered post addressed to him at his address last
known to the Commission.

(3) Where-

   (a)  the Commission is unable, after diligent inquiry, to ascertain the
        identity of the owner of land; or

   (b)  service on the owner of land cannot be effected under subsection (1),
        service on that owner may be effected by causing a copy of the notice
        or other document to be published in a newspaper circulating in a
        district in which the land is situated and-

   (c)  if the land is occupied-leaving a copy of the notice or other document
        with the occupier; or

   (d)  if the land is not occupied-affixing, if practicable, a copy of the
        notice or other document to a conspicuous part of the land.

(4) Where the Commission is unable, after diligent inquiry, to ascertain-

   (a)  whether land is occupied; or

   (b)  the identity of a person occupying land, it may treat the land as
        being unoccupied.

(5) Where service of a notice or other document on the occupier of land cannot
be effected under sub-section (1), service on the occupier may be effected by
causing a copy of the notice or other document to be published in a newspaper
circulating in the district in which the land is situated and affixing, if
practicable, a copy of the notice or other document to a conspicuous part of
the land.