4. Manner of service of notices and orders.- (1) In addition to any mode of service specified in the Act, a notice issued under sub-section (1) of Sec. 4 or sub-section(2) of Sec. 5A or sub-section (1) of Sec. 5B or sub-section (1) or sub-section (1A) of Sec. 6 or an order issued under Sec. 3A or sub-section (1) or sub-section (3) of Sec. 5A of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (5) of Sec. 5B or sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of Sec. 5C or sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of Sec. 7 of the said Act shall be served by delivering tendering a copy of the notice or order, as the case may be to the person for whom it is intended or to any adult member of his family, or by sending it by registered post acknowledgment due in a letter addressed to that person at his usual or last-known place of residence or business.
(2) Where the copy of as the case may be under sub-rule (1) is delivered or tendered, the signature of the person to whom the copy is so delivered or tendered should be obtained in token of acknowledgment of the service.
(3) In respect of a notice issued under sub-section (1) of Sec.4or sub-section (2) of Sec. 5A or sub-section (1) or sub-section (1A) or Sec.6 oranorderissuedunderSec.3Aof sub-section (1) or sub-section (3) of Sec. 5A or sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (5) or Sec. 5B or sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of Sec. 5C or sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of Sec. 7 of the said Act. where the person or the adult member of the family of such person refuses to sign the acknowledgment, or where such person cannot be found after using all due and reasonable diligence, and there is no adult member of the family of such person, a copy of the notice or the order, as the case may be shall be affixed on the outer door or some other conspicuous part of the ordinary residence or usual place of business of such person and the original shall be returned to the estate officer who issued the notice or the order, as the case may be, with a report endorsed thereon or annexed thereto stating that a copy has been so affixed, the circumstances under which it was done so and the name and address of the person, if any, by whom the ordinary residence or usual place of business was identified and in whose presence the copy was affixed.
(4) If a notice under sub-section (1) of Sec. 4 or sub-section (2) of Sec. 5A or sub-section (1) or sub-section (]A) of Sec. 6 or an order issued under sub-section (1) of Sec. 5 or sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (5) or Sec. 5B or sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of Sec. 5E or sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of Sec. 7 of the said Act cannot be served in the manner provided in sub-rule (1), the estate officer may, if he thinks fit, direct that such notice or order, as the case may be, shall also be published in at least one newspaper having circulation in the locality and he may also proclaim the contents of any notice or order in the locality by beat of drum;
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