Regulation 18 Electronic communication of requests, applications or notices
Subject to paragraph (3) and without prejudice to section 24(2) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954, any notice or other document required or authorised to be served on or sent or given to any person under the provisions of these Regulations may be served, sent or given, in a case where an address for service using electronic communications has been given by that person, by sending it using electronic communications, in accordance with the conditions set out in paragraph (2), to that person at that address.
The condition mentioned in paragraph (1) is that the notice or other document shall be—
capable of being accessed by the recipient;
legible in all material respects; and
in a form sufficiently permanent to be used for subsequent reference,
and for this purpose “legible in all material respects” means that the information contained in the notice or document is available to the recipient to no lesser extent than it would be if served or given by means of a notice or document in printed form.
Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any notice required or authorised to be given to or served by a billing body on any person under paragraph 2 of Schedule 4.
Where a person uses electronic communications to transmit any notice or other document for any purpose of these Regulations which is capable of being carried out electronically, he shall be taken to have agreed, except where a contrary intention appears, to the use of such communications and that his address for that purpose is the address incorporated into, or otherwise logically associated with, the notice or document.