Regulation 16 Service of documentsI1C1

Every applicant for the grant of plant breeders' rights and holder of rights and any of the other persons concerned in any proceedings under the relevant legislation shall give to the Controller an address within the F1United Kingdom (hereinafter referred to as his “address for service”) which shall be the address at which any notices or other documents under or in accordance with the relevant legislation may be delivered to, served upon, or given to him for the purpose of the relevant legislation.

Any person may give to the Controller in substitution for his address for service another address within the F2United Kingdom which shall thereafter be his address for service.

Subject to paragraph (4), any document or thing required or authorised by or in pursuance of the relevant legislation to be delivered to, served on or given to the Controller may be delivered, served or given by being left at the Office or at such other place as the Controller may have required in writing or sent to the Controller at the Office or at such place by post in a properly addressed prepaid letter or parcel.

Plant material to be delivered to the Controller pursuant to the relevant legislation may, in stead of being sent by post, be sent by other convenient means.

Any document or thing required or authorised by the relevant legislation to be delivered to, served on or given to any person other than the Controller may be delivered, served or given by being delivered to him personally, left for him at his address for service or at his last known address or sent to him there by post in a properly addressed prepaid letter.