{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/339",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-legal-aid-general-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Service of notices",
  "text": "(1) Where by virtue of these Regulations any document is required to be served (whether the expression “serve” or the expression “send” or “send by post” or any other expression is used) the document may be served–\n(a) if the person to be served is acting in person, by delivering it to him personally or by delivering it at, or sending it by post to, his address for service or, if he has no address for service,–\n(i) by delivering the document at his residence or by sending it by post to his last known residence, or\n(ii) in the case of a proprietor of a business, by delivering the document at his place of business or by sending it by post to his last known place of business;\n(b) if the person to be served is acting by a solicitor–\n(i) by delivering the document at, or by sending it by post to, the solicitor’s address for service, or\n(ii) where the solicitor’s address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange, by leaving the document at that document exchange or at a document exchange which transmits documents daily to that document exchange.\n(2) Any document which is left at a document exchange in accordance with paragraph (1)(b)(ii), shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it is left.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2036",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/339/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:43.448906+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."
}