{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-livestock-exports-enforcement-regulations-2024/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-livestock-exports-enforcement-regulations-2024/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1146",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Enforcement Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-welfare-livestock-exports-enforcement-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Notices",
  "text": "(1) Any notice required or authorised to be served under these Regulations may be given by—\n(a) delivering it to the person;\n(b) leaving it at the person’s proper address; or\n(c) sending it by post to the person at that address.\n(2) Any such notice may—\n(a) in the case of a body corporate, be served on an officer of the body;\n(b) in the case of a limited liability partnership or a Scottish partnership, be served on a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business; and\n(c) in the case of an unincorporated partnership or any other unincorporated body, be served on an officer of that body.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation and 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 a notice is to be served is—\n(a) in the case of a body corporate, the address of the registered or principal office of the body;\n(b) in the case of a limited liability partnership or a Scottish partnership, the address of the principal office of the partnership;\n(c) in the case of an unincorporated partnership or any other unincorporated body, the address of the principal officer of the partnership or body; and\n(d) in any other case, the last known address of the person in question.\n(4) If a person on whom a notice or other document is to be served under these Regulations has specified an address for service of such a notice, that address is also to be treated, for the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this regulation, as that person’s proper address.\n(5) If the name or address of an occupier of premises on whom a notice is to be served under these Regulations cannot, after reasonable inquiry, be ascertained, the notice may be served by leaving it conspicuously affixed to a building or object on the premises.\n(6) In this regulation—\n(a) “body corporate” does not include a limited liability partnership or a Scottish partnership;\n(b) references to serving include references to a similar expression (such as giving and sending).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1146/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:24:34.454045+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}