(1) Where an officer of the court is unable to effect personal service under section 23 the Court may, on the request of the Director, make an order for substituted service of the interim protection order and notice of proceedings for a final protection order.
(2) Substituted service is taken to have been effected at midnight on the date of publication of the advertisement.
(3) The cost of an advertisement under subsection (2) is borne by the applicant.
(4) In this section, “substituted service” means service—
(a) by registered post to the last known address of the respondent;
(b) by leaving the document at the last known address of the respondent or with his or her relative;
(c) by leaving the document at the workplace of the respondent;
(d) by advertisement in a newspaper of general circulation;
(e) in any other manner as the Court directs.