Singapore legislation
Section 111
Section 111
Service of summons, notices, etc.
(1)
Unless otherwise expressly provided, every notice, order or document required or authorised by this Act to be served on the owner of a flat, house or building sold under the provisions of this Act is deemed to be sufficiently served —
if the same is delivered to the person or is delivered at the flat, house or building to some adult member or servant of the person’s family;
if it is sent to the person by registered post to the person’s flat, house or building (whether or not it has been received by the person); or
if it is affixed to some conspicuous part of the person’s flat, house or building.
(2)
Every notice, order or document required or authorised by this Act to be served on any person other than an owner of a flat, house or building sold under the provisions of this Act, and every summons issued by a court in connection with any offence under this Act, may be served on the person concerned —
by delivering the notice, document, order or summons to the person or to some adult member or servant of the person’s family at the person’s last known place of residence;
by leaving the notice, order, document or summons at the person’s usual or last known place of residence or business in a cover addressed to the person;
by sending the notice, order, document or summons by registered post addressed to the person at the person’s usual or last known place of residence or business;
where the person is a body corporate —
by delivering the notice, order, document or summons to the secretary or other like officer of the body corporate at its registered or principal office; or
by sending the notice, order, document or summons by registered post addressed to the body corporate at its registered or principal office.
(3)
Any notice, order, document or summons sent by registered post to any person in accordance with subsection (2) is deemed to be duly served on the person to whom the letter is addressed at the time when the letter would, in the ordinary course of post, be delivered and, in proving service of the same, it is sufficient to prove that the envelope containing the notice, order, document or summons was properly addressed, stamped and posted by registered post.[83