{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/991",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Service of notices or documents",
  "text": "Where, by any provision of the Act , of the Child Support Act or of these Regulations—\n(a) any notice or other document is required to be given or sent ... to an officer authorised by the Secretary of State or to an officer of the Board, that notice or document shall be treated as having been so given or sent on the day that it is received ... by an officer authorised by the Secretary of State or by an officer of the Board, as the case may be, and\n( b) any notice (including notification of a decision of the Secretary of State) or other document is required to be given or sent to any person other than ... to an officer ... an officer authorised by the Secretary of State or an officer of the Board, as the case may be, that notice or document shall, if sent by post to that person’s last known address, be treated as having been given or sent on the day that it was posted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (3.3.2003 for specified purposes and in accordance with reg. 1(1), (2)) by The Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3185) , reg. 1(1) (2) 3 (with reg. 14(3) ) (see S.I. 2003/192, arts. 3, 7, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(a) omitted (3.11.2008) by virtue of Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683) , art. 1 , Sch. 1 para. 97(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(a) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2570) , regs. 1 , 5(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(a) omitted (3.11.2008) by virtue of Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683) , art. 1 , Sch. 1 para. 97(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(a) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2570) , regs. 1 , 5(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(b) omitted (3.11.2008) by virtue of Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683) , art. 1 , Sch. 1 para. 97(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(b) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2570) , regs. 1 , 5(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2570) , regs. 1 , 5(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(b) modified (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Tax Credits (Decisions and Appeals) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/127) , regs. 1(1) , 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/991/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:23.255868+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."
}