{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-licensing-and-enforcement-etc-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/68",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed (Licensing and Enforcement etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-licensing-and-enforcement-etc-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Service of notices",
  "text": "(1) Any notice required to be given to any person by the Scottish Ministers by virtue of these Regulations may be given by—\n(a) delivering it to that person;\n(b) leaving it at that person’s proper address;\n(c) sending it by post or fax to that person’s proper address; or\n(d) sending it by email to that person’s last known email address.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), in the case of a licensed professional seed operator or a licensed seed testing station, “person” includes a responsible person.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), a notice is delivered to—\n(a) a body corporate where it is given to a relevant individual within that body;\n(b) a partnership where it is given to a partner or a person having control or management of the partnership;\n(c) an unincorporated association where it is given to an officer or a member of the governing body of the association or any other person having management responsibilities in respect of the association.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) and (c) and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents by post) in its application to this regulation, “proper address” means—\n(a) in the case of a body corporate, the registered office (if it is in the United Kingdom) or the principal office of the body in the United Kingdom;\n(b) in the case of a partnership, the principal office of the partnership;\n(c) in the case of an unincorporated association, the principal office of the association;\n(d) in any other case, a person’s last known address.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(d), a notice is sent to an email address of—\n(a) a body corporate, where it is sent to an email address of—\n(i) the body corporate; or\n(ii) a relevant individual within that body,\nwhere that address is supplied by that body for the conduct of the affairs of that body;\n(b) a partnership, where it is sent to an email address of—\n(i) the partnership; or\n(ii) a partner or person having control or management of that partnership,\nwhere that address is supplied by that partnership for the conduct of the affairs of the partnership;\n(c) an unincorporated association, where it is sent to an email address of—\n(i) an officer or member of the governing body of the association; or\n(ii) any other person having management responsibilities in respect of the association,\nwhere that address is supplied by that association for the conduct of the affairs of that association;\n(d) a person other than a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c), where it is sent to an email address supplied by that person for the conduct of the affairs of that person.\n(6) In this regulation—\n“partnership” includes a Scottish partnership; and\n“relevant individual” means—\n(a) a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate; or\n(b) where the affairs of the body corporate are managed by its members, a member.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 1.7.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c.30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/68/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:15.420016+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."
}