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Paragraph 15

Northern Ireland

(1)

F1. . . the High Court, on the application of the Society, may order that for such time not exceeding eighteen months as the judge thinks fit, postal packets (as defined byF2 section 125(1) of the Postal Services Act 2000) addressed to the solicitor or his firm at any place or places mentioned in the order for re-direction shall be directed to any other address there mentioned.

(2)

Where such an order is made the Society shall pay to the postal operator (as defined by F3section 27 of the Postal Services Act 2011) concerned the like charges (if any) as would have been payable for the re-direction of such packets. . . , if the addressee had permanently ceased to occupy the premises to which they were addressed and had applied to the postal operator to re-direct them to him at the address mentioned in the order.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

1989 NI 14

F2

SI 2001/1149

F3

Words in Sch. 1 para. 15(2) substituted (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2085), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 12