{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-rules-1994/article-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-rules-1994/article-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/703",
  "legislation_title": "Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Rules 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/incumbents-vacation-of-benefices-rules-1994",
  "path": "article/28",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Service of documents.",
  "text": "(1) Any notice or other document required to be given or sent to any person may be served on that person or his solicitor (if any) —\n(a) by delivering it to him or by leaving it at his proper address; or\n(b) by post; or\n(c) where the proper address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange, by leaving the document at the document exchange or at a document exchange which transmits documents every business day to that document exchange; or\n(d) in such other manner as the chairman of the tribunal may direct.\n(2) For the purpose of this rule and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (as applied by sections 21 and 22 of that Act) in its application to this rule the proper address of any person on whom a notice or other document is to be served under this rule shall be —\n(a) his usual or last known address; or\n(b) the business address of the solicitor (if any) who is acting for him in the proceedings.\n(3) Any document required by these rules to be sent to the tribunal shall be sent by delivering the document to the secretary at the address specified in the notice referred to in rules 4(1) and 16(1) or by sending it by post properly addressed as aforesaid to the secretary.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/703/article/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:37:18.986661+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."
}