{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-99",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-99.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/16",
  "legislation_title": "Commissioners Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/99",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "99",
  "heading": "Service of notices upon commissioners.",
  "text": "Any summons or notice, or any writ or other proceeding at law or in equity, requiring to be served upon the commissioners, may be served by the same being left at or sent through a post office of a postal operator ..., directed to the commissioners, at their principal office, or one of their principal offices where there shall be more than one, or by being given personally to the clerk, or in case there be no clerk, then by being given to any one commissioner.\nIn this section “post office” has the meaning given by section 125(1) of the Postal Services Act 2000 and “postal operator” has the meaning given by section 27 of the Postal Services Act 2011.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 99 substituted (26.3.01) by S.I. 2001/1149, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 1 (with art. 4(11))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 99 omitted (1.10.2011) by virtue of Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 71(a); S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 99 inserted (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 71(b); S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 99 incorporated (E.W.S) (18.6.2001) by S.I. 2001/2184, art. 2S. 99 incorporated (E.W.S) (18.6.2001) by S.I. 2001/2185, art. 2S. 99 incorporated (E.W.S) (with modifications) (25.8.2001) by S.I. 2001/2820, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 99-102 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (29.12.2007) by Maryport Harbour Revision Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/3463), arts. 1(1), 3(3), 3(4) (with arts. 78, 80, 81)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 99-102 incorporated (1.6.2009) by Berwick Upon Tweed Harbour Revision (Constitution) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1231), arts. 1(1), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 99-102 incorporated (E.W.S.) (21.5.2010) by The Newlyn Pier and Harbour Revision (Constitution) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1462), arts. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Ss. 99-101 incorporated with modifications by S.I. 2001/2820 art. 3(1) (as substituted (E.W.S.) (23.7.2012) by The Poole Harbour Revision Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1777), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 1 (with arts. 58, 59))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Ss. 99-101 incorporated (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (1.11.2015) by The Great Yarmouth Port Authority (Constitution) Harbour Revision Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1395), arts. 1(3), 2, 3 (with Sch. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/16/section/99",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:31:16.289299+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."
}