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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018/part-1/chapter-9/article-1n39",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/347",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Scotland) (Receivership and Winding up) Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-scotland-receivership-and-winding-up-rules-2018",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1.38",
  "heading": "Postal delivery of documents",
  "text": "(1) A document is delivered if it is sent by post in accordance with the provisions of this rule.\n(2) A document delivered by post may be delivered to the last known address of a person.\n(3) First class or second class post may be used to deliver a document.\n(4) Unless the contrary is shown—\n(a) a document sent by first class post is to be treated as delivered on the second business day after the day on which it is posted;\n(b) a document sent by second class post is to be treated as delivered on the fourth business day after the day on which it is posted;\n(c) where a post-mark appears on the envelope in which a document was posted, the date of that post-mark is to be treated as the date on which the document was posted.\n(5) In this rule “post-mark” means a mark applied by a postal operator which records the date on which a letter entered the postal system of the postal operator.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/347/part/1/chapter/9/article/1n39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:10:16.461516+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."
}