Service how to be effected on owners of premises and other persons

When any notice, bill, schedule, summons or other such documents is required by this Act, or by any regulation or bye-law made under this Act, to be served upon or issued or presented to any person such service, issue or presentation shall except in the cases otherwise expressly provided for in section 657 be effected —

1. (a) by giving or tendering to such person the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other documents; or
2. (b) if such person is not found, by leaving the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document at his last known place of abode in the city or by giving or tendering the same to some adult male member or servant of his family; or
3. (c) if such person does not reside in the City, and his address elsewhere is known to the Commissioner by forwarding the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other documents to him by post under cover bearing the said addresses; or
4. (d) if none of the means of aforesaid be available by causing the said notice, bill, schedule, summons or other document to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land, if any, to which the same relates.