{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suspension-appeals-churchwardens-etc-rules-2016/rule-5.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suspension-appeals-churchwardens-etc-rules-2016/rule-5.1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/816",
  "legislation_title": "The Suspension Appeals (Churchwardens etc.) Rules 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suspension-appeals-churchwardens-etc-rules-2016",
  "path": "rule/5.1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "5.1",
  "heading": "Sending or delivering documents",
  "text": "(1) Any document required by these Rules to be sent or delivered to any person shall be sent or delivered by any of the following means—\n(a) by first class post to the proper address of that person,\n(b) by leaving it at the proper address of that person,\n(c) by DX\n(d) by email.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below the proper address shall be the usual or last known address of a person.\n(3) The proper address for the President shall be care of the Legal Office of the National Institutions of the Church of England.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 5.1 comes into force in accordance with rule 5.5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/816/rule/5.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:01.077177+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."
}