{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-accident-reporting-and-investigation-regulations-2005/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-accident-reporting-and-investigation-regulations-2005/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/881",
  "legislation_title": "The Merchant Shipping (Accident Reporting and Investigation) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merchant-shipping-accident-reporting-and-investigation-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Service of documents",
  "text": "Any notice or other document required or authorised by any provision of these Regulations to be served on or given to any person may be served or given:\n(a) by delivering it to that person;\n(b) by leaving it at his usual or last-known residence or place of business, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere;\n(c) by sending it to him by post at that address; or\n(d) by sending it to him at the address by telex, facsimile, or other means which produces a document containing a text of the communication, or by electronic mail in which event the document shall be regarded as having been served when it is sent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/881/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:46.628363+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."
}