{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-wrecks-rms-titanic-order-2003/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-wrecks-rms-titanic-order-2003/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2496",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection of Wrecks (RMS Titanic) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-wrecks-rms-titanic-order-2003",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Offences: further provisions",
  "text": "(1) A document required by article 8(3)(a) to be served on a person charged with an offence under this Order may be served on that person—\n(a) by delivering it to him;\n(b) by leaving it at his proper address; or\n(c) by sending it by post to him at his proper address.\n(2) If the person charged with an offence is the master of a ship the document may be served—\n(a) where there is a master, by leaving it for him on board the ship with the person appearing to be in command or charge of the ship;\n(b) where there is no master, on—\n(i) the managing owner of the ship; or\n(ii) if there is no managing owner, on any agent of the owner; or\n(iii) where no such agent is known or can be found, by fixing a copy of the document on the outside of the ship in a position in which it may reasonably be expected to be seen.\n(3) A document required by article 8(3)(a) to be served on a person charged with an offence under this Order may—\n(a) in the case of a body corporate, be served on the secretary or clerk of that body;\n(b) in the case of a partnership, be served on a partner or person having the control or management of the partnership business.\n(4) For the purposes of this article and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents by post) in its application to this article, the proper address of any person on whom a document under article 8(1) is to be served shall be his last known address, except that—\n(a) in the case of a body corporate or its secretary or clerk it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of that body;\n(b) in the case of a partnership or a person having the control or management of the partnership business, it shall be the principal office of the partnership;\nand for the purposes of this paragraph the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom shall be its principal office in the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 9 in force at 18.11.2019 as notified in the London Gazette (issue 62919, published 14.2.2020), see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2496",
      "affecting_title": "The Protection of Wrecks (RMS Titanic) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2496/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:57:51.514728+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."
}