54 Notices under Parts I and II.U.K.
(1)Any notice required or authorised to be served by the Secretary of State under Part I or II may be served by post.
(2)Any notice required or authorised to be served by the Secretary of State under Part I or II on the registered owner of any registered ship or registered fishing vessel shall, where there are two or more registered owners, be treated as duly served—
(a)in the case of a ship in relation to which a managing owner is for the time being registered under section 59(1) of the 1894 Act, if served on that managing owner, and
(b)in the case of any other ship or in the case of a fishing vessel, if served on any one of the registered owners.
(3)For the purposes of section 7 of the M1Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents by post) a letter containing—
(a)a notice to be served on any person in pursuance of subsection (2) above, or
(b)a notice required or authorised to be served under Part I on a representative person within the meaning of that Part,
shall be deemed to be properly addressed if it is addressed to that person at the address for the time being recorded in relation to him in the appropriate register; and a letter containing any other notice to which subsection (1) above applies shall be deemed to be properly addressed if it is addressed to the last-known address of the person to be served (whether of his residence or of a place where he carries on business).
(4)In this section—
“the appropriate register”—
(a)in relation to a notice in respect of a registered ship, means the register in which the ship is registered under Part I of the 1894 Act, and
(b)in relation to a notice in respect of a registered fishing vessel, means the register kept under Part II of this Act;
“registered ship” means a ship registered under Part I of the 1894 Act;
“registered fishing vessel” means a fishing vessel registered under Part II of this Act; and
“registered owner” means an owner registered under Part I of the 1894 Act or Part II of this Act, as the case may be.
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