Electricity Act, 2003
171. Services of
notices, orders or documents.-
1.
Every
notice, order or document by or under this Act required, or authorised to be
addressed to any person may be served on him by delivering the same after
obtaining signed acknowledgement receipt there for or by registered post or
such means of delivery as may be prescribed--
a. where the Appropriate
Government is the addressee, at the office of such officer as the Appropriate
Government may prescribe in this behalf;
b. where the Appropriate
Commission is the addressee, at the office of the Appropriate Commission;
c. where a company is
the addressee, at the registered office of the company or, in the event of the
registered office of the company not being in India, at the head office of the
company in India;
d. where any other
person is the addressee, at the usual or last known place of abode or business
of the person.
2.
Every
notice, order or document by or under this Act required or authorised to be
addressed to the owner or occupier of any premises shall be deemed to be
properly addressed if addressed by the description of the owner or occupier of
the premises (naming the premises), and may be served by delivering it, or a
true copy thereof, to some person on the premises, or if there is no person on
the premises to whom the same can with reasonable diligence be delivered, by
affixing it on some conspicuous part of the premises.