{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/yarmouth-isle-of-wight-harbour-revision-order-2011/article-23",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1347",
  "legislation_title": "The Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) Harbour Revision Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/yarmouth-isle-of-wight-harbour-revision-order-2011",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Notices",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this article, and to the other provisions of this Order, a notice or other document required or authorised to be served for the purposes of this Order, or any direction given under this Order, shall be in writing and may be served by post.\n(2) Where the person on whom a notice or other document to be served for the purposes of this Order is a body corporate, the notice or document is duly served if it is served on the secretary or clerk of that body.\n(3) Where a person on whom a notice or other document is to be served has agreed in writing that service may be by email, or other electronic means, the Commissioners may employ this method of service until such time as the person informs them in writing that the person is no longer willing to receive notices or documents by email or by such other electronic means.\n(4) For the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 as it applies for the purposes of this article, the proper address of any person in relation to the service on that person of a notice or document under paragraph (1) is, if the person has given an address for service, that address, and otherwise—\n(a) in the case of the secretary or clerk of a body corporate, the registered or principal office of that body; and\n(b) in any other case, the person’s last known address at the time of service.\n(5) Where for the purposes of this Order a notice or other document is required or authorised to be served on a person whose name and address cannot be ascertained after reasonable inquiry—\n(a) in the case of a notice or document to be served on any person as having an interest on, or as the occupier of, any land, it may be served by —\n(i) addressing it to that person by name or by the description of “owner”, or as the case may be “occupier”, of the land (describing it); and\n(ii) either leaving it in the hands of a person who is or appears to be resident or employed on the land or leaving it conspicuously affixed to some building or object on or near the land;\n(b) in the case of a notice or document relating to a vessel (including a wreck), it may be served by exhibiting it in a conspicuous position on or near the vessel, or handed to a member of the crew, unless it would not be reasonably practicable to exhibit the notice or document in this manner, or if the notice or document would not be likely to be seen if it were so exhibited;\n(c) in the case of any notice or document served otherwise than under paragraph (5)(a) or (b), it may be served by displaying it at the office of the harbourmaster for the period of its duration.\n(6) This article shall not be taken to exclude the employment of any method of service not expressly provided for by it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c.30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1347/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:06:07.193540+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."
}