{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-nature-restoration-levy-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-nature-restoration-levy-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348284379",
  "legislation_title": "The Nature Restoration Levy Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-nature-restoration-levy-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Giving and sending notices and documents",
  "text": "(1) Where a notice or document is to be given or sent to a person under these Regulations, it may be given or sent by one or more of the following means—\n(a) delivering it by hand to a relevant individual;\n(b) leaving it at the person’s proper address;\n(c) sending it by post to the person at that address;\n(d) sending it by email to the person’s email address;\n(e) sending it to the person by other appropriate electronic means.\n(2) A “relevant individual” means, in the case of a notice or document to—\n(a) an individual, that individual;\n(b) a body corporate (other than a partnership), a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body;\n(c) a partnership, a partner in the partnership or a person who has the control or management of the partnership business;\n(d) an unincorporated body (other than a partnership), a member of its governing body.\n(3) A person's proper address is—\n(a) if the person has provided an address to which documents may be sent under these Regulations, that address;\n(b) in the case of a body corporate, the address of the body's registered or principal office in the United Kingdom;\n(c) in the case of a partnership, the address of the principal office of the partnership in the United Kingdom;\n(d) in any other case, the last known address of the person (whether of the person's residence or of a place where the person carries on business or is employed).\n(4) A person's email address is any email address—\n(a) provided by the person as an address to which documents may be sent under these Regulations;\n(b) published for the time being by that person as an address for contacting that person.\n(5) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(e), electronic means are appropriate only if they are a means by which the person giving or sending the notice or document reasonably believes that the notice or document will come to the attention of the person to whom it is being sent.\n(6) A notice or document sent to a person by email or other appropriate electronic means is to be treated as having been given or sent at 9am on the working day immediately following the day on which it was sent.\n(7) This regulation does not apply to giving or sending a notice or document to Natural England, the Secretary of State or the Crown.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348284379/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:12.733251+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."
}