{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1976-repealed-131999/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1976-repealed-131999/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/25",
  "legislation_title": "Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1976 (repealed 1.3.1999)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fair-employment-northern-ireland-act-1976-repealed-131999",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Service of documents.",
  "text": "(1) Any notice or other document which is required or permitted by the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Acts to be served on a person may—\n(a) if that person is an individual, be served on him—\n(i) by delivering it to him, or\n(ii) by sending it to him by post, addressed to him at his usual or last-known place of residence or business, or\n(iii) by leaving it for him at that place; or\n(b) if that person is a body corporate or unincorporate, be served on the body—\n(i) by sending it by post to the proper officer of the body at its registered or principal office, or at its principal office in Northern Ireland, or\n(ii) by addressing it to the proper officer of the body and leaving it at any such office.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not prejudice any other lawful method of service.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 (c. 32, SIF 43:1), s. 59(1), Sch. 2 para. 19"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/25/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:30:17.002092+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."
}