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Defence Act, 1957 (Act No. 44 of 1957)

Chapter XIII : General

150. Presumption as to delivery of notices

 

 

(1) Any notice sent by registered post to any person's registered address shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been delivered to him at the time when it would have reached him in the ordinary course of post, and any notice issued under this Act relating to any person and exhibited at a prescribed public office in the magisterial district in which his registered address is, shall be deemed to have been duly served on such person.

 

(2) All magistrates, postmasters and officers in charge of police stations are required to exhibit such notices issued under this Act, and to keep on hand and issue on request to applicants such forms as are sent to them by the prescribed authority.