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Attestation and service of notices.
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30.—(1) Every notice served under this Act on a coal retailer shall, if failure to comply with such notice is declared by this Act to be an offence, be sealed with the official seal of the Minister.
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(2) Every notice which is required or authorised by this Act to be served on a coal retailer may be so served—
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(a) by delivering such notice to such coal retailer, or
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(b) by delivering such notice at any place at which such coal retailer carries on business as a coal retailer to a person of or over the age of sixteen years in the employment of such coal retailer in relation to such business, or
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(c) by sending such notice by prepaid registered post addressed to such coal retailer, if he is a registered coal retailer, at any premises in respect of which he is registered in a register kept under this Act, or if he is not a registered coal retailer, at any place at which he carries on his business as a coal retailer.
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(3) Every notice served under this Act on a coal retailer may, in any prosecution of such coal retailer for failure to comply with such notice, be proved by the production of a copy of such notice sealed with the official seal of the Minister and having endorsed thereon a certificate, signed by an officer of the Minister authorised in that behalf by the Minister, certifying that such copy is a true copy of the notice so served on such coal retailer, and it shall not be necessary to prove the signature of such officer or that he was such officer as aforesaid or was so authorised as aforesaid.
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