{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriers-liability-regulations-2002/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriers-liability-regulations-2002/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2817",
  "legislation_title": "The Carriers' Liability Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carriers-liability-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Presumptions about service of documents",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these Regulations:\n(a) where a notice is sent by first class post in a prepaid registered envelope or by the recorded delivery service, addressed to the person to whom the notice is required to be served, it is to be taken to have been received by (and served on) that person on the second day after the day on which it was sent;\n(b) where a notice is sent by facsimile, to the last known business facsimile number of the person to whom notice is required to be served, it is to be taken to have been received by (and served on) that person on the day on which it was sent;\n(c) where a notice is sent by electronic mail, to the last known business electronic mail address of the person to whom notice is required to be served, it is taken to have been received by (and served on) that person on the day on which it was sent; and\n(d) where a notice is sent in accordance with regulation 10(5), addressed to the person to whom notice is required to be served, it is to be taken to have been received by (and served on) that person on the fourth day after the day on which it was sent.\n(2) A document issued or served on a person outside the United Kingdom for the purposes of section 35(1) or (7) of the Act, or in the course of proceedings under section 35(10) of the Act, is to be taken to have been received by that person:\n(a) where it is issued or served by post, on the fourth day after the day on which it was sent;\n(b) where it is issued or served by facsimile to the last known business facsimile number of the person concerned, on the day on which it was sent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/29",
      "affecting_title": "The Carriers’ Liability (Amendment) Regulations 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/29",
      "affecting_title": "The Carriers’ Liability (Amendment) Regulations 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2817/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:20.559640+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."
}