Section 554: Notices and their service

(1) Notices, bills, schedules, summonses and other such documents required by this Act or by any rule, regulation or bye-law to be served upon or issued or presented or given to any person, shall be served, issued, presented or given by 1Corporation officers or servants or by other persons authorized by the 2Municipal Commissioner in this behalf.\br @s (2) When any notice, bill, schedule, summons or other such document is required by this Act, or by any rule, regulation or byelaw to be served upon or issued or presented to any person, such service, issue or presentation shall, except in the cases otherwise expressly provided for in sub-section (3), be effected,—\br @s (a) by giving or tendering to such person the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document ; or\br @s (b) if such person is not found, by leaving the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document at his last known place of abode in the City, or by giving or tendering the same to some adult member or servant of his family, or by leaving the same at his usual place of business, if any, by giving or tendering the same to some adult employee, if any, of his at such place ; or\br @s (c) if such person does not reside in the City and his address elsewhere is known to the 2Municipal Commissioner, by forwarding the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other documents to him by post under cover, bearing the said address ; or\br @s (d) if none of the means aforesaid be available, by causing the said notice, bills, schedule, summons or other document to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land, if any, to which the same relates.\br @s (3) When any notice, bill, schedule, summons or other such documents is required by this Act, or by any rule, regulation or byelaw, to be served upon or issued or presented to the owner or occupier of any building or land, it shall not be necessary to name the owner or occupier therein, and the service, issue or presentation thereof shall be effected, not in accordance with the provisions of the last preceding sub-section, but as follows, namely,—\br @s (a) by giving or tendering the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document to the owner or occupier or if there be more than one owner or occupier, to any one of the owners or occupiers of such building or land ;\br @s (b) if the owner or occupier or no one of the owners or occupiers is found, by giving or tendering the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document to some adult member or servant of the family of the owner or occupier or of any of the owners or occupiers, or\br @s (c) if none of the means aforesaid be available by causing the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land to which the same relates.\br @s (4) Whenever the person on whom any notice, bill schedule summons or other such document is to be served is a minor, service upon his guardian or upon an adult male member or servant of his family shall be deemed to be service upon the minor.\br @s (5) Nothing in this section applies to any summons issued under this Act by a Magistrate.\br @s