Singapore legislation
Clause 129
Clause 129
Service of notices
(1)
Unless otherwise expressly provided in this Act, a notice that is required or authorised by this Act to be given to or served on a person may be given to or served on that person —
by posting it or sending it by facsimile transmission to his address for service (within the meaning of this section) or to his last known place of residence or business;
by leaving it at his address for service (within the meaning of this section) or at his last known place of residence or business; or
in the case of a subsidiary proprietor, by affixing the notice on the front door of his lot.
(2)
A summons or other legal process may be served on a management corporation or subsidiary management corporation by leaving it with the chairperson or secretary of the management corporation or subsidiary management corporation or of the council or with any member of the council thereof.
(3)
A document other than a document referred to in subsection (2) may be served on a management corporation or subsidiary management corporation —
by leaving it with any person referred to in subsection (1) or in the receptacle provided by the management corporation or subsidiary management corporation under section 28; or
by sending it, by registered post, to the management corporation at its address recorded on the folio of the land-register comprising the common property.
(4)
The address for service for persons other than a management corporation or subsidiary management corporation shall be as follows:
in the case of an occupier of a lot, the address for service shall be the address of the lot; and
where an address for service of notices is recorded in the address so recorded in the strata roll, the address so recorded.
(5)
Where any notice or other document is —
sent by facsimile transmission in accordance with subsection (1), it shall be deemed to have been duly served on the person to whom it is addressed where there is an acknowledgment by electronic or other means to the effect that the notice or document has been received at the address for service or place of residence or business, as the case may be;
sent by pre-paid registered post, it shall be deemed to have been duly served on the person to whom it is addressed 2 days after the day the notice or document was posted, notwithstanding it is returned undelivered; or
delivered to or affixed on the front door of any lot, on the date of such delivery or affixing of the notice or document at that lot.
(6)
Subject to subsection (2), this section shall not apply to notices and documents to be served in proceedings in court.