{"act":{"id":"dadra-nagar-haveli-daman-diu-highways-act-1974","short_title":"The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Highways Act, 1974","long_title":null,"act_number":"10","act_year":1974,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu","unit":"section","section_count":77,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/4ffaed16-478f-4509-890d-f966c4f645a6.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/dadra-nagar-haveli-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"71","heading":"Services of notices and bills","text":"Every notice or bill issued or prepared under this Act, may be served or presented, - (a) by delivering or tendering it or sending it by post to the person to whom it is addressed, or his agent; or (b) if such a person or his agent is not found then by leaving it at his usual or last known place of abode or by delivering or tendering it to some adult male member of his family or by causing it to be fixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land, if any, to which it relates. (2) Where a notice under this Act is required to be served upon an owner or occupier of a building or land, it shall not be necessary to name the owner or occupier, and the service thereof may be effected either- (a) by delivering or tendering the notice or sending it by post to the owner or occupier or if there be more owners or occupiers than one, to any of them; or (b) if no such owner or occupier is found, then by giving or tendering the notice to any adult male member or servant of his family or by causing the notice to be fixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land to which the same relates. (3) Whenever the person to whom a notice or bill is to be served is a minor, service upon his guardian or upon an adult male member or servant of his family shall be deemed to be service upon the minor.","html":"<p>Every notice or bill issued or prepared under this Act, may be served or presented, - (a) by delivering or tendering it or sending it by post to the person to whom it is addressed, or his agent; or (b) if such a person or his agent is not found then by leaving it at his usual or last known place of abode or by delivering or tendering it to some adult male member of his family or by causing it to be fixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land, if any, to which it relates. (2) Where a notice under this Act is required to be served upon an owner or occupier of a building or land, it shall not be necessary to name the owner or occupier, and the service thereof may be effected either- (a) by delivering or tendering the notice or sending it by post to the owner or occupier or if there be more owners or occupiers than one, to any of them; or (b) if no such owner or occupier is found, then by giving or tendering the notice to any adult male member or servant of his family or by causing the notice to be fixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land to which the same relates. (3) Whenever the person to whom a notice or bill is to be served is a minor, service upon his guardian or upon an adult male member or servant of his family shall be deemed to be service upon the minor.</p>","words":261,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/dadra-nagar-haveli-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/71/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/4ffaed16-478f-4509-890d-f966c4f645a6.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/deeaff17-b117-4743-992c-9050266f1248/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}