Paragraph 16 F1F2
Service of documents etc
Any document required or authorised by virtue of this Schedule to be served on a person may be so served—
by delivering it to him or by leaving it at his proper address or by sending it by post to him at that address; or
if a person is a body corporate, by serving it in accordance with paragraph (a) above on the secretary or clerk of that body; or
if the person is a partnership, by serving it in accordance with that paragraph on a partner or on a person having control or management of the partnership business.
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above, and for the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to the service of documents by post) in its application to that sub-paragraph, the proper address of any person on whom a document is to be served by virtue of this Schedule shall be his last known address except that—
in the case of service on a body corporate or its secretary or clerk, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of the body corporate;
in the case of service on a partnership or a partner or a person having the control or management of a partnership business, it shall be the principal office of the partnership;
and for the purposes of this sub-paragraph the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom is its principal office within the United Kingdom.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Regulations revoked (with savings) (26.12.2017) by The Radio Equipment Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1206), regs. 1, 78(1) (with regs. 3-5, 77, 78(2)); and Regulations (as saved) modified (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2017/1206, reg. 78(2)(2A) (as amended by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 29 para. 45(3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))
- F2
Sch. 9 substituted (29.12.2003) by The Radio Equipment and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3144), regs. 1, 2(10)