{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-5/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/schedule-5/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any notice under paragraph 13 , 15 or 15A may be served on a person—\n(a) by delivering it to him, by 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 of the body.\n(2) For the purposes of this section and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents by post) the proper address of a person on whom a notice is to be served shall be—\n(a) in the case of a body corporate or its secretary, that of the registered or principal office of the body, and\n(b) in any other case, the last known address of that person.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 paras. 13-16 and preceding cross-heading inserted (18.1.2004) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), ss. 182, 270(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 16(1) substituted (22.9.2008) by Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (c. 17), ss. 305, 325(2), Sch. 13 para. 5 (with Sch. 13 para. 14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/schedule/5/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+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."
}