Housing Act 1966
Service of notices, etc.
3.—(1) Where a notice, copy of an order, or demand is required or authorised by this Act or any order or regulation made thereunder to be served on, given to or made of a person, it shall be addressed to him and shall be served on, given to or made of him in some one of the following ways:
(a) where it is addressed to him by name, by delivering it to him;
(b) by leaving it at the address at which he ordinarily resides or, in a case in which an address for service has been furnished, at that address;
F5[(c) by sending it by post in a prepaid registered letter addressed to him at the address at which he ordinarily resides or, in a case in which an address for service has been furnished, at that address or, where such registered letter is returned undelivered to the sender, by ordinary prepaid post;]
(d) where the address at which he ordinarily resides cannot be ascertained by reasonable inquiry and the notice, copy or demand is so required or authorised to be served, given or made in respect of any land or premises or works thereon, by delivering it to some person over sixteen years of age resident or employed on such land or premises or by affixing it in a conspicuous position on or near such land or premises.
(2) Where a notice, copy of an order, or demand is required by this Act or any order or regulation made thereunder to be served on, given to, or made of an owner or occupier of any land or premises and the name of the owner or of the occupier, as the case may be, cannot be ascertained by reasonable inquiry, it may be addressed to “the owner” or “the occupier”, as the case may require, without naming him.
(3) For the purposes of this section, a company within the meaning of the Companies Act, 1963, shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident at its registered office, and every other body corporate and every unincorporated body shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident at its principal office or place of business.
(4) Where a repairs notice, a notice mentioned in subsection (4) of section 66 of this Act, F6[a notice mentioned in subsection (4) of section 117 of this Act or a notice mentioned in section 15 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014,] is served on or given to a person by affixing it under paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section, a copy of the notice shall, within two weeks thereafter, be published in at least one newspaper circulating in the area in which the person is last known to have resided.
(5) A person who, at any time during the period of three months after a document is affixed under paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section, removes, damages or defaces the documentwithout lawful authority shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
(6) Where the Minister is satisfied that reasonable grounds exist for dispensing with the publication, serving or giving under this Act or under any order or regulation made thereunder, of a notice, copy of an order, or demand and that dispensing with the publication, serving, giving or making of the notice, copy or demand will not cause injury or wrong, he may dispense with the publication, serving or giving of the notice or copy and every such dispensation shall have effect according to the tenor thereof.
(7) A dispensation under the foregoing subsection may be given either before or after the time when the notice or copy would, but for the dispensation, be required to be published, served or given and either before or after the doing of any act to which the notice or copy would, but for the dispensation, be a condition precedent.
F7[(8) In this section “notice” includes a tenancy warning under section 7, 8 or 9 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 and—
(i) references (however expressed) in this section to the serving of a notice on a person includes the serving of any such tenancy warning to a person under the said section 7, 8 or 9, as the case may be, and
(ii) subsection (5) shall apply to a tenancy warning affixed on or near the dwelling concerned in a manner prescribed under the said section 7(4), 8(3) or 9(3), as the case may be.]
Annotations
Amendments:
F5
Substituted (1.07.1997) by Housing (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 1997 (21/1997), s. 23, S.I. No. 247 of 1997.
F6
Substituted (13.04.2015) by Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (21/2014), s. 18(1)(a), S.I. No. 121 of 2015.
F7
Inserted (13.04.2015) by Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (21/2014), s. 18(1)(a), S.I. No. 121 of 2015.
Modifications (not altering text):
C15
Application of section extended with modifications by Industrial Development Act 1986 (9/1986), s. 16C(3), (4), as inserted (19.09.2018) by Industrial Development (Amendment) Act 2018 (19/2018), s. 6, S.I. No. 361 of 2018.
[Exercise of compulsory powers
16C. ...
(2) IDA may be authorised to exercise the powers under paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (1) of section 16 compulsorily by means of a compulsory purchase order as provided for by section 76 of the Act of 1966 and the Third Schedule thereto.
(3) Section 3 and Part V (other than section 77) of, and the Third and Fourth Schedules to, the Act of 1966, shall, with any necessary modifications, apply in relation to an order made by virtue of subsection (2) and for that purpose —
(a) references in that Act to a housing authority shall be construed as references to IDA,
(b) references in sections 78(1) and 81(3)(a) of, and paragraph 4(a) of the Third Schedule to, that Act to newspapers circulating in their functional area shall be construed as references to newspapers circulating in the area in which the land to which the order relates is situate,
(c) references (howsoever expressed) in that Act to acquiring land compulsorily shall be construed as references to the exercise compulsorily of the powers under paragraphs (a) , (b) or (c) of subsection (1) of section 16,
(d) reference in section 80(1) of that Act to enter on, take possession of and use the land shall be construed as including reference to exercise, or as the case may be, terminate, restrict or otherwise interfere with, any easement or other right authorised by the order, and
(e) references in that Act to the purposes of that Act shall be construed as references to the purpose referred to in subsection (1) of section 16.
(4) In construing a compulsory purchase order made by virtue of subsection (2), a reference in any enactment incorporated therein which, but for this subsection, would by virtue of paragraph 5(5) of the Third Schedule to the Act of 1966 be construed as a reference to a housing authority, shall be construed as a reference to IDA.]
C16
Application of subs. (5) extended (1.09.1992) by Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (18/1992), s. 10(11)(b), S.I. No. 223 of 1992.
Removal of temporary dwellings from certain locations.
10.— ...
(11) (a) A notice under subsection (1) may be served on a person in either or both of the following ways: ...
(ii) at the discretion of the authority, by affixing it in a conspicuous position on or near the temporary dwelling to which it relates.
(b) Section 3(5) of the Principal Act shall apply to a notice affixed in accordance with paragraph (a) (ii).
C17
Subs. (5) applied with modifications (1.09.1992) by Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (18/1992), s. 33(1)(a) and (b)(i), S.I. No. 223 of 1992. The maximum fine of £1,000 translates into a class C fine not exceeding €2,500 as provided (4.01.2011) by Fines Act 2010 (8/2010), ss. 3, 6, S.I. No. 662 of 2010.
Increase in fines, etc.
33.—(1) (a) Any person convicted of an offence for which a fine is provided under a provision referred to in paragraph (b) shall, in lieu of that fine, be liable to a fine not exceeding £1,000 and those sections shall be construed and have effect accordingly.
(b) The provisions to which paragraph (a) relates are as follows:
(i) in the Principal Act, sections 3(5), 4(2) and 61(2), subsection (7) (inserted by the Housing Act, 1970) of section 62, section 64(2), subsections (3) and (4) of section 65, section 67(3), subsections (1), (2) and (3)(b) of section 68 and subsections (1)(a) and (2) of section 69, and
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