{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weeds-act-1959/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weeds-act-1959/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/54",
  "legislation_title": "Weeds Act 1959",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/weeds-act-1959",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Service of notices.",
  "text": "(1) Any notice required or authorised by this Act to be served on any person shall be duly served if it is delivered to him, or left at his proper address, or sent to him by post in a registered letter.\n(2) Any such notice required or authorised to be served on an incorporated company or body shall be duly served if served on the secretary or clerk of the company or body.\n(3) For the purposes of this section and of section twenty-six of the Interpretation Act, 1889, the proper address of any person on whom any such notice is to be served shall, in the case of the secretary or clerk of any incorporated company or body, be that of the registered or principal office of the company or body, and in any other case be the last known address of the person in question.\n(4) Where any such notice is to be served on a person as being the person having any interest in land, and it is not practicable after reasonable enquiry to ascertain his name or address, the notice may be served by addressing it to him by the description of the person having that interest in the land (naming it), and delivering the notice to some responsible person on the land or by affixing it, or a copy of it, to some conspicuous object on the land.\n(5) Where any such notice is to be served on a tenant a copy thereof shall be served on the landlord.\n(6) Where any such notice is to be served on any person as being the owner of land and the land is vested in the incumbent of a benefice of the Church of England, a copy thereof shall be served on the Diocesan Board of Finance for the diocese in which the land is situated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(6) substituted (1.10.2006) by Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2006 (No. 1), s. 16(2), Sch. 5 para. 7; Instrument made by Archbishops 2006/2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6(6) subsituted (1.10.2006) by virtue of Church of England (Miscellaneous Provisions) Measure 2006 (No. 1), s. 16(2), Sch. 5 para. 7; Instrument made by Archbishops 2006/2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1889 c. 63."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/54/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:50.105348+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}