{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/395",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Potatoes (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-potatoes-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Service of notices",
  "text": "(1) Any notice served under these Regulations must be in writing and may be amended, suspended or revoked in writing at any time.\n(2) A notice may be served on a person by—\n(a) personal delivery;\n(b) leaving it at the person's proper address; or\n(c) sending it by post or by electronic means to the person's proper address.\n(3) In the case of a body corporate, a notice may be served on or given to an officer of that body.\n(4) In the case of a partnership, a notice may be served on or given to a partner or a person having control or management of the partnership business.\n(5) In the case of an unincorporated association, a notice may be served on or given to an officer of the association.\n(6) For the purposes of this regulation 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 or an officer of that body—\n(i) the registered or principal office of that body; or\n(ii) the email address of the officer;\n(b) in the case of a partnership or a partner or person having control or management of the partnership business—\n(i) the principal office of the partnership; or\n(ii) the email address of the partner or person having that control or management;\n(c) in the case of an unincorporated association or an officer of the association—\n(i) the office of the association; or\n(ii) the email address of the officer;\n(d) in any other case, a person's last known address, which includes an email address.\n(7) For the purposes of paragraph (6), the principal office of a body corporate registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership established outside the United Kingdom is its principal office in the United Kingdom.\n(8) If the name or address of any occupier of premises on whom a notice is to be served or given under these Regulations cannot, after reasonable inquiry, be ascertained, the notice may be served by leaving it conspicuously affixed to a building or object on the premises.\n(9) A notice may specify that a person in receipt of it must immediately inform an authorised officer of its safe receipt.\n(10) In this regulation—\n“body corporate” includes a limited liability partnership;\n“director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate;\n“officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate; and\n“partnership” includes a Scottish partnership, but does not include a limited liability partnership.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1978 c.30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/395/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:52.276655+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."
}