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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-administration-rules-2018/article-7.24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-administration-rules-2018/article-7.24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1135",
  "legislation_title": "The Education Administration Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-administration-rules-2018",
  "path": "article/7.24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7.24",
  "heading": "Postal delivery of documents",
  "text": "(1) A document is delivered if it is sent by post in accordance with the provisions of this rule.\n(2) First class or second class post may be used to deliver a document.\n(3) Unless the contrary is shown—\n(a) a document sent by first class post is treated as delivered on the second business day after the day on which it is posted;\n(b) a document sent by second class post is treated as delivered on the fourth business day after the day on which it is posted;\n(c) where a post-mark appears on the envelope in which a document was posted, the date of that post-mark is to be treated as the date on which the document was posted.\n(4) In this rule “post-mark” means a mark applied by a postal operator which records the date on which a letter entered the postal system of the postal operator.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1135/article/7.24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:52:44.908739+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."
}