Regulation 4 Service of documents
Where any provision in Part III of the Act or in these Regulations authorises or requires any document to be served or sent to a person or any written notice to be given to a person the document may be served or sent or thenotice may be given by properly addressing, pre-paying and posting a letter containing the document or notice.
For the purposes of this regulation, the proper address of a person is—
in the case of the child’s parent, his last known address;
in the case of a head teacher or other member of the staff of a school, the school’s address;
in the case of any other person, the last known address of the place where he carries on his business, profession orother employment.
Where first class post is used, the document or notice shall be treated as served, sent or given on the secondworking day after the date of posting, unless the contrary is shown.
Where second class post is used, the document or notice shall be treated as served, sent or given on the fourthworking day after the date of posting, unless the contrary is shown.
The date of posting shall be presumed, unless the contrary is shown, to be the date shown in the post-markon the envelope in which the document is contained.