{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-products-regulations-1991/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-products-regulations-1991/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1620",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction Products Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-products-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Service of documents etc.",
  "text": "(1) Any document required or authorised by virtue of these Regulations to be served on a person may be so served–\n(a) by delivering it to him or by leaving it at his proper address or by sending it by post to him at that address; or\n(b) if the person is a body corporate, by serving it in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above on the secretary or clerk of that body; or\n(c) if the person is a partnership, by serving it in accordance with that subparagraph on a partner or on a person having control or management of the partnership business.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, and for the purpose of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to the service of documents by post) in its application to that paragraph, the proper address of any person on whom a document is to be served by virtue of these Regulations shall be his last known address except that–\n(a) in the case of service on a body corporate or its secretary or clerk, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of the body corporate;\n(b) in the case of service on a partnership or a partner or a person having the control or management of a partnership business, it shall be the principal office of the partnership;\nand for the purposes of this paragraph the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom is its principal office within the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1620/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:41:18.922296+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."
}