67.— (1) A notice required or permitted under this Act to be given to a person is to be addressed to the person by name and may be given to the person in one of the following ways:

(a) by delivering it to the person;

(b) by leaving it at the address at which the person ordinarily resides or carries on business;

(c) by sending it by post in a pre-paid registered letter to the address at which the person ordinarily resides or carries on business;

(d) if an address has been provided by the person, by leaving it at the address provided or sending it by pre-paid registered post addressed to the person at that address;

F176[(da) if the person concerned has agreed to the service of notices by means of an electronic communication (within the meaning assigned by section 2 of the Electronic Commerce Act 2000) to that person (being an addressee within the meaning assigned by that section) and provided that there is a facility to confirm receipt of electronic mail and that such receipt has been confirmed, then by that means; ]

(e) if the person giving the notice considers that notice should be given immediately and a fax machine is located at an address mentioned in paragraph (b) or (d), by sending it by fax to that machine but only if the sender’s fax machine generates a message confirming successful transmission of the total number of pages of the notice.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a company registered under the Companies Acts is deemed to be ordinarily resident at its registered office, and every other body corporate and every unincorporated body is deemed to be ordinarily resident at its principal office or place of business.