Singapore legislation
Section 44
Section 44
Service of documents
(1)
Any notice, order or document required or authorised by this Act to be given or served on any person, and any summons issued by a court in connection with any offence under this Act may be served on the person —
by delivering it to the person or to some adult member or employee of his or her family at his or her last known place of residence;
by leaving it at the person’s usual or last known place of residence or business in an envelope addressed to the person;
by affixing it to some conspicuous part of the person’s last known place of residence; or
by sending it by registered post addressed to the person at the person’s usual or last known place of residence or business,and where the person to be served is a body corporate —
by delivering it to the secretary or other like officer of the body corporate at its registered or principal office; or
by sending it by registered post addressed to the body corporate at its registered or principal office.
(2)
Any notice, order, document or summons sent by registered post to any person in accordance with subsection (1) is deemed to be duly served on the person at the time when the notice, order, document or summons would, in the ordinary course of post, be delivered and in proving service of the notice, order, document or summons, it is sufficient to prove that the envelope containing the same was properly addressed, stamped and posted by registered post.