Paragraph 18 Service of notices or documents to the proper officerI1

England and Wales

(1)

This paragraph has effect in relation to any notice or other document required or authorised by or under this Schedule to be served on the proper officer.

(2)

Any such notice or document may be served on the proper officer by being transmitted to the proper officer by fax or other means of electronic transmission, but only to a telephone number or, as the case may be, electronic address or website for the time being published by the proper officer for the purpose of accepting service of such notices or documents.

(3)

Unless the contrary is proved, any notice or document transmitted to the proper office in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) is to be taken to have been delivered on the second working day after the day on which it was transmitted.

(4)

Where the address of the proper officer includes a box number at a document exchange the service of such a document may be effected by leaving the document addressed to that box number—

(a)

at that document exchange; or

(b)

at a document exchange which transmits documents every working day to that exchange,

and any such document so left is to be taken, unless the contrary is proved, to have been served on the second working day after the day on which it was left.

(5)

Paragraphs 2(2)(a) and 4(4)—

(a)

are satisfied, in the case of a document transmitted by facsimile copy, if a copy of the signature of the relevant person appears on the transmitted copy; and

(b)

do not apply in relation to a document transmitted by other means of electronic transmission.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. para. 18 in force at 2.9.2013, see reg. 1(1)

Notes on Schedule

Modifications

C1: Sch. applied (with modifications) (1.4.2018) by The Littering From Vehicles Outside London (Keepers: Civil Penalties) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/171), regs. 1(2), 19(1)