{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-refrigerators-and-freezers-regulations-1997/schedule-3/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-refrigerators-and-freezers-regulations-1997/schedule-3/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1941",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Efficiency (Refrigerators and Freezers) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-efficiency-refrigerators-and-freezers-regulations-1997",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Service of documents etc.",
  "text": "(1) Any document required or authorised by virtue of these Regulations to be served on a person may be so served—\n(a) by delivering it to him or leaving it at his proper address or by sending it by post to him at that address; or\n(b) if the person is a body corporate, by serving it in accordance with paragraph (a) on the secretary or clerk of that body; or\n(c) if the person is a partnership, by serving it in accordance with that paragraph on a partner or on a person having control or management of the partnership business.\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), and for the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to the service of documents by post) in its application to that paragraph, the proper address of any person on whom a document is to be served by virtue of these Regulations shall be his last known address except that—\n(a) in the case of service on a body corporate or its secretary or clerk, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of the body corporate;\n(b) in the case of service on a partnership or a partner or a person having the control or management of a partnership business, it shall be the principal office of the partnership;\nand for the purposes of this paragraph the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom is its principal office within the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1941/schedule/3/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:40.715628+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."
}