# The Airports (Groundhandling) Regulations 1997, Regulation 4: Service of documents

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) Any notice or other document required or authorised by any provision of these Regulations to be served on or given to any person may be served or given—
(a) by delivering it to that person;
(b) by leaving it at his proper address;
(c) by sending it to him by post at that address; or
(d) by sending it to him at that address by telex or by facsimile transmission or other similar means which produce a document containing a text of the communication, in which event the document shall be regarded as served when it is received.
(2) Any notice or other document required or authorised by any provision of these Regulations to be served on or given to any person may—
(a) in the case of a body corporate, be served on or given to the secretary or clerk of that body;
(b) in the case of a partnership, be served on or given to a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business or, in Scotland, the firm.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents by post) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person on whom any notice or other document is to be served or to whom any such notice or other document is to be given shall be his last known address, except that—
(a) in the case of a body corporate, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of that body; and
(b) in the case of a partnership, it shall be the principal office of the partnership
and, for the purposes of this paragraph, where a company registered outside the United Kingdom or a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom has an office in the United Kingdom, the principal office of that company or partnership shall be their principal office in the United Kingdom.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2389/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/airports-groundhandling-regulations-1997/regulation-4
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