{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-12.10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986/rule-12.10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1925",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency Rules 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-rules-1986",
  "path": "rule/12.10",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "12.10",
  "heading": "Service by post",
  "text": "(1) For a document to be properly served by post, it must be contained in an envelope addressed to the person on whom service is to be effected, and pre-paid for either first or second class post.\n(1A) A document to be served by post may be sent to the last known address of the person to be served.\n(2) Where first class post is used, the document is treated as served on the second business day after the date of posting, unless the contrary is shown.\n(3) Where second class post is used, the document is treated as served on the fourth business day after the date of posting, unless the contrary is shown.\n(4) The date of posting is presumed, unless the contrary is shown, to be the date shown in the post-mark on the envelope in which the document is contained.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 12.10(1A) inserted (11.1.1988 with application in accordance with rule 3(1)(2)) by The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 1987 (S.I. 1987/1919), rule 1, Sch. para. 146"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 12.10 in force at 29.12.1986, see rule 0.1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for rule 4.54(5)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/686",
      "affecting_title": "The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1925/rule/12.10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:38:55.219722+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."
}