(1)  Where by any Act it is provided that public notification or notice shall be given of any matter not required by law to be published in full, such provision shall be construed to mean that a notice comprising the essential features of such matter shall be published in the Gazette or in a newspaper, or in both, as may be indicated by the context.

(2)  Where by any Act it is provided that any matter shall be advertised, then, unless the contrary intention appears, such matter shall be published in such publications, if any, as may be specified by such provision, and if no particular publication is specified therein, the same shall be published in a newspaper.

(3)  Where no number of publications is prescribed in any such provision as aforesaid, it shall be sufficient to publish the prescribed matter once in each of the ways prescribed by such provision, or, if no other way is prescribed, in a newspaper.

(4)  For the purposes of this section and of any such provisions as aforesaid, the term

newspaper shall mean a daily newspaper generally circulating in the district or place to which the matter required to be published relates or in which it arises.