(1) When any notice or order is required to be given under the Act or under these rules, such notice or order shall, when no particular method is provided or indicated in the Act or these rules, be given.-
(a) by delivery or tendering one of the duplicates of the notice or order to such person; or
(b) if such person is not found, by delivering or tendering one of the duplicates of the notice or order to some adult member of his family residing in the house in which the person ordinarily reside; or
(c) if such person does not reside in the local area and his address elsewhere is known to the Officer or person issuing the notice or order by sending the same to him by registered post, acknowledgement due; or
(d) if none of the means aforesaid be available, by affixing the same in some conspicuous part of the house in which the person summoned ordinarily resides, and thereupon the notice or order shall be deemed to have been duly served.
(2) In the case of joint owners, it shall be sufficient to serve the notice or order on or send it to one of such owners.