# The Protection of Wrecks (RMS Titanic) Order 2003, Article 9: Offences: further provisions

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: prospective

(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—
(a) by delivering it to him;
(b) by leaving it at his proper address; or
(c) by sending it by post to him at his proper address.
(2) If the person charged with an offence is the master of a ship the document may be served—
(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;
(b) where there is no master, on—
(i) the managing owner of the ship; or
(ii) if there is no managing owner, on any agent of the owner; or
(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.
(3) A document required by article 8(3)(a) to be served on a person charged with an offence under this Order may—
(a) in the case of a body corporate, be served on the secretary or clerk of that body;
(b) in the case of a partnership, be served on a partner or person having the control or management of the partnership business.
(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—
(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;
(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;
and 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2496/article/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-wrecks-rms-titanic-order-2003/article-9
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