{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-appeal-tribunals-rules-1997/article-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-appeal-tribunals-rules-1997/article-35.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/798",
  "legislation_title": "The Reserve Forces Appeal Tribunals Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-appeal-tribunals-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/35",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Method of sending, delivering or serving documents, etc.",
  "text": "(1) Any document required or authorised by these Rules to be sent or delivered to any person shall be duly sent or delivered to that person if it is—\n(a) sent to him at his proper address by post;\n(b) sent to him at that address by means capable of producing a document containing a text of the communication, in which event the document shall be regarded as sent when it is received in a legible form;\n(c) delivered to him or left at his proper address.\n(2) If any document is sent by first class recorded delivery or registered post, it shall be treated as if it had been delivered on the day after it was received for despatch by the Post Office.\n(3) The proper address of any person to whom any such document is to be sent or delivered shall be—\n(a) in the case of the Secretary, the address included in or with the written notification of the disputed determination, or failing that—\nThe Secretary of the Reserve Forces Appeal Tribunals\nc/o Mailroom\nMinistry of Defence\nWhitehall\nLondon\nSW1A 2HB;\n(b) in the case of any other person, any address that he has notified to the Secretary (whether in pursuance of rule 3(1)(a) or (f) above, or rule 8(1)(b) above or otherwise) as his address for the purposes of the appeal; or\n(c) in the case of a witness who has not notified an address as mentioned in sub-paragraph (b), any address provided by the appellant or the Authority in accordance with rule 3(1)(g) above or rule 8(1)(d) above; or\n(d) in the case of a secretary or clerk of any incorporated company or body for whom an address has not been provided as mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) or (c), that of the registered or principal office of the company or body; or\n(e) in any other case, the last-known address of the person in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1149",
      "affecting_title": "The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order 2001"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/798/article/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:03.552955+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."
}