Singapore legislation
Section 21
Section 21
Service of notices
(1)
When any notice is required by this Act to be given to the owner or occupier of any land, the notice addressed to the owner or occupier may be served in the manner following:
if the owner or occupier of the land is within Singapore, the notice may be delivered to him or left with some adult member of his family, other than a servant, residing with him within Singapore;
if the notice cannot be served in the manner described in paragraph (a) or if the owner or occupier is not resident within Singapore, it may be sent by registered post addressed to him at his residence in Singapore;
if the notice cannot be served in the manner described in paragraph (a) or (b) or if there is no known owner or occupier of the land, the notice may be put up on some conspicuous place on the land.
(2)
It shall not be necessary in any such notice to name the owner or occupier, if the land to which the notice relates is therein referred to.
(3)
Every such notice shall be in the English language and also, if the person for whom it is intended is an Asian not known to understand the English language, in such other language as in the opinion of the officer signing the notice is likely to render it intelligible to him:Provided that no notice shall be deemed to be bad or insufficient by reason merely of the language it is rendered in.