# The Milk (Cessation of Production) (England and Wales) Scheme 1987, Section 19: Service of notices or of copies of applications

Extent: E+W

(1) Any notice under this Scheme shall be duly served on the person on whom it is to be served if it is delivered to him, or left at his proper address, or sent to him by post in a registered letter or by the recorded delivery service.
(2) Any such notice shall be duly served on an incorporated company or body if it is served on the secretary or clerk of the company or body.
(3) For the purposes of this Scheme and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (service by post), the proper address of any person on whom any such notice is to be served shall be—
(a) in the case of the secretary or clerk of an incorporated company or body, the address of the registered or principal office of the company or body; and
(b) in any other case, the last known address of the person in question.
(4) Unless or until the tenant or a landlord has received—
(a) notice that the original landlord has ceased to be his immediate landlord, and
(b) notice of the name and address of the person who has become his immediate landlord,
any notice served on the original landlord by the tenant or landlord shall be deemed for the purposes of this Scheme to have been properly served; and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph and sub-paragraph (5), “original landlord” means any person who was the tenant’s or the landlord’s immediate landlord before the person who has become the tenant’s or the landlord’s immediate landlord.
(5) Where an original landlord receives a notice in the circumstances referred to in sub-paragraph (4), he shall forthwith transmit that notice to the person on whom it should have been served.
(6) In this paragraph, “notice” includes a copy of an application served under paragraph 7.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/908/section/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/milk-cessation-of-production-england-and-wales-scheme-1987/section-19
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