Safety, Health and Welfare (Offshore Installations) Act, 1987

Service of notices, etc.

7.—(1) Where a notice or other document is required by this Act or any regulations made under this Act to be served on, given or sent to a person, it shall be addressed to him and may be served on, given or sent to him in some one of the following ways:

(a) where it is addressed to him by name, by delivering it to him,

(b) by leaving it at the address at which he carries on business or ordinarily resides or, in a case in which an address for service has been furnished, at that address,

(c) by sending it by post in a prepaid registered letter addressed to him at the address at which he carries on business or ordinarily resides or, in a case in which an address for service has been furnished, at that address,

(d) where the address at which he carries on business or ordinarily resides cannot be ascertained by reasonable enquiry and the notice or copy is so required or authorised to be served or given in respect of any offshore installation, by delivering the notice or copy to some person over sixteen years of age resident or employed in or on the installation or by affixing it in a conspicuous position on the installation.

(2) Regulations under this Act may require owners of offshore installations who are of a class or description specified in the regulations to furnish to the Minister an address in the State for the service of any notice or document referred to in subsection (1) of this section.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a company within the meaning of the Companies Act, 1963 , 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 any other place at which it carries on business.