Section 33

Service of any notice under this Act shall be made by delivering or tendering a copy thereof signed in the case of a notice under section 4 by the officer therein men-tioned and in the case of any other notice by or by order of the Land Officer or the Court.

Whenever practicable the service of the notice shall be made on the person therein named.

When such person cannot be found the service may be made on any adult male member of his family resid-ing with him, and if no such adult male member can be found the notice may be served by fixing the copy on the outer door of the house in which the person therein named ordinarily dwells 9r carries on business, or by fixing a copy thereof in some conspicuous place in the Land Office and also on some conspicuous part of the land to be acquired:

Provided that if the Land Officer or the Court so directs the notice may be sent by registered letter addressed to the person named therein at his last known residence, address or place of business and service of it may be proved by the production of the registration receipt. It shall be presumed that such registered letter was received by the addressee in the ordinary course of the post.