{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-113",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-113.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/882",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Conduct Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026",
  "path": "rule/113",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "113",
  "heading": "Timing of service",
  "text": "(1) A document given to a person under the CCM or these Rules is to be treated as having been received by that person on the day specified in the following table—\nMethod of service\nDate of receipt\nDelivering document to or leaving it at proper address\nIf it is delivered to or left at that address on a business day before 4.30 p.m., that day; or, if not, the next business day after that day.\nFirst class post, or other delivery service which provides for delivery on the next business day, to proper address\nThe second business day after the day on which the document was posted, or left with, delivered to or collected by the service provider, if that day is itself a business day; or, if not, the next business day after that day.\nElectronic means\nIf the email or other electronic transmission is sent on a business day before 4.30 p.m., that day; or, if not, the next business day after it was sent.\nPersonal service\nIf the document is served personally before 4.30 p.m. on a business day, that day; or, if not, the next business day after that day.\n(2) In the table, “business day” means a day which is not a Saturday or Sunday and which is not Christmas Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday or a bank holiday in England under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/882/rule/113",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:56:54.526438+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."
}