{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348268843",
  "legislation_title": "The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Giving of notices and documents",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a provision in these Regulations requires or authorises a person to—\n(a) notify another person (“A”) of something, or\n(b) give a document to A (whether the provision uses the word “give” or some other term).\n(2) The notification or document must be given to A—\n(a) by sending it by post in a pre-paid envelope—\n(i) addressed to A at A’s last known place of residence, or\n(ii) if A has given an address for service, addressed to A at that address, or\n(b) if A has given an address for service using electronic communications, by sending it to A at that address using an electronic communication method which complies with the conditions in paragraph (3).\n(3) The conditions are that the notification or document is—\n(a) capable of being accessed by A,\n(b) legible in all material respects, and\n(c) capable of being used by A for subsequent reference.\n(4) A notification or document given in accordance with these Regulations, is—\n(a) if given electronically, to be treated for the purposes of these Regulations as having been given, unless the contrary is proved, on the day on which the electronic communication was sent;\n(b) if given to the IBCA other than electronically, to be treated as having been given on the day it is received by the IBCA;\n(c) if given by the IBCA other than electronically, to be treated as having been given on the day that it was sent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268843/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:35.762697+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."
}