Safety, Health and Welfare At Work Act, 1989

Service of notices, etc.

3.—(1) Any document (including any summons, notice or order) required or authorised to be served, sent or given under the relevant statutory provisions on or to any person may be served or sent in some one of the following ways—

(a) where it is addressed to him by name, by delivering it to such person, or in the case of a partnership by delivery to any of the partners;

(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, or in a case in which an address for service has been furnished, at that address;

(d) where the address at which such person ordinarily resides cannot be ascertained by reasonable inquiry and notice is required to be served on, or given to, him in respect of any place of work, by delivering it to a person over the age of sixteen years of age resident in or employed at a place of work or by affixing it in a conspicuous position on or near the place of work.

(2) Any document (including any summons, notice or order) required or authorised to be served or sent under the relevant statutory provisions may be served on or sent to a body, whether corporate or unincorporated—

(a) by leaving it at, or sending it by post in a prepaid registered letter to, the registered office (if any) of the body;

(b) by leaving it at, or sending it by post in a prepaid registered letter to, any place at which the body conducts business; or

(c) by sending it by post in a prepaid registered letter to any person who is a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body or is purporting to act in any such capacity at the place where he ordinarily resides or by leaving it at that place.