Litter Act, 1982

Service of notices.

17.—(1) Where a notice is required or authorised by this Act to be served on a person, it shall be addressed to him and shall be served on him in some one of the following ways:

(a) by delivering it to him,

(b) by leaving it at the address at which he ordinarily resides,

(c) by sending it by post in a prepaid registered letter addressed to him at the address at which he ordinarily resides,

(d) where the address at which he ordinarily resides cannot be ascertained by reasonable inquiry and the notice is so required or authorised to be given or served in respect of any land, or a vehicle or article on or removed from any land by delivering it to some person over sixteen years of age resident or employed on such land or by affixing it in a conspicuous position on or near such land.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a company registered under the Companies Acts, 1963 and 1977, shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident at its registered office, and every other body corporate and every unincorporated body shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident at its principal office or place of business.

(3) A person who, at any time, without lawful authority, removes, damages or defaces a notice affixed under subsection (1) (d) of this section—

(a) before the period specified in the notice expires, or

(b) before the notice is complied with,

whichever should first happen, shall, unless he is the person to whom the notice is addressed, be guilty of an offence.