Section 571 — Housing Act 1985: Service of notices.
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Service of notices. 571 1 A notice or other document under this Part may be given to or served on a person, and an application or written request under this Part may be made to a person—
a by delivering it to him or leaving it at his proper address, or b by sending it to him by post, and also, where the person concerned is a body corporate, by giving or making it to or serving it on the secretary of that body.
2 For the purposes of this section, and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 as it applies for the purposes of this section, the proper address of a person is—
a in the case of a body corporate or its secretary, the address of the principal office of the body, b in any other case, his last known address, and also, where an additional address for service has been specified by that person in a notice under section 548(2) (notice of intention to assume responsibility for repurchase), that address.
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