Section 192 Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959

Section 192 of the Property and Conveyancing Law of the Western Region of Nigeria 1959 is about Regulations respecting notices. It provides as follows:

(1) Any notice required or authorised to be served or given by this Law shall
be in writing.

(2) Any notice required or authorised by this Law to be served on a lessee or
mortgagor shall be sufficient, although only addressed to the lessee or mortgagor by
that designation, without his name, or generally to the persons interested, without
any name, and notwithstanding that any person to be affected by the notice is absent, under disability, unborn, or unascertained.

(3) Any notice required or authorised by this Law to be served shall be sufficiently
served if it is left at the last-known place of abode or business in Nigeria of the
lessee, lessor, mortgagee, mortgagor, or other person to be served, or, in case of a
notice required or authorised to be served on a lessee or mortgagor, is affixed or left
for him on the land or any house or building comprised in the lease or mortgage.

(4) Any notice required or authorised by this Law to be served shall be sufficiently
served, if it is sent by post in a registered letter addressed to the lessee, lessor,
mortgagee, mortgagor, or other person to be served, by name, at the aforesaid place of abode or business, office, or counting-house, and if that letter is not returned through the post-office undelivered; and that service shall be deemed to be made at the time at which the registered letter would in the ordinary course be delivered.

(5) The provisions of this section shall extend to notices required to be served by
any instrument affecting property executed or coming into operation after the
commencement of this Law unless a contrary intention appears.

(6) This section does not apply to notices served in proceedings in the court.