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- (d) by sending it by email to the last email address of the body corporate or unincorporated association.
(5) In addition, a document permitted or required by this Act to be served on an individual, a partnership, a body corporate or an unincorporated association may be served—
- (a) by giving an electronic notice to the individual, partnership, body corporate or unincorporated association (called in this section an addressee) by the addressee’s chosen means of notification, stating that the document is available and how the addressee may use the addressee’s chosen means of access to access the document’s contents; or
- (b) where by the exercise of reasonable diligence, the name of any individual or a body of persons to whom the document is to be given, or the business address, residential address or last email address of the individual or body, cannot be ascertained—
- (i) in the case of an encroachment notice, by affixing it on a board or other structure in a conspicuous place on the land to which the notice relates; or
- (ii) by posting the document on a website maintained by the Authority and prescribed by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, for this purpose.
(6) A summons for criminal proceedings arising from a complaint made by an authorised officer under section 16(1) may be served as follows, despite the Criminal Procedure Code 2010:
- (a) in the manner described in subsection (2)(a), (b), (c) or (d) in the case of individuals, subsection (3)(a), (b) or (c) in the case of partnerships, or subsection (4)(a), (b) or (c) in the case of a body corporate (including a limited liability partnership) or an unincorporated association;
- (b) if, after due inquiry to ascertain the whereabouts of any person on whom a summons is required to be served, the whereabouts of that person cannot be ascertained, the summons may be given or served—
