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Paragraph 11 Service of notices and ordersI1

United Kingdom Not yet in force

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(1)

This paragraph applies to—

(a)

notice of an application made by an appropriate officer under this Schedule;

(b)

an order under this Schedule.

(2)

The notice or order may be served on a person (whether the person is in the United Kingdom or outside it) by such means, including electronic means, as rules of court permit.

(3)

The notice or order may be served on a person outside the United Kingdom in any of the following ways (as well as by electronic or other means of service)—

(a)

by delivering it to the person’s principal office within the United Kingdom or, if the person has no such office in the United Kingdom, to any place in the United Kingdom where the person carries on business or conducts activities,

(b)

if the person has specified an address in the United Kingdom as one at which the person, or someone on the person’s behalf, will accept service of documents of the same description as the notice or order, by delivering it to that address, or

(c)

by making it available for inspection (whether to the person or to someone acting on the person’s behalf) at a place in the United Kingdom (subject to sub-paragraph (4)).

(4)

The notice or order may be served on a person outside the United Kingdom in the way mentioned in sub-paragraph (3)(c) only if—

(a)

it is not reasonably practicable for it to be served by any other means (whether as mentioned in sub-paragraph (3)(a) or (b) or otherwise), and

(b)

the person serving it takes such steps as they consider appropriate for the purpose of bringing its contents, and its availability for inspection, to the attention of the person on whom it is being served.

(5)

The steps mentioned in sub-paragraph (4)(b) must be taken as soon as reasonably practicable after the notice or order is made available for inspection.

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Sch. 18 para. 11 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 255(1)