The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2005

Notices

4.—(1) Any notice or other document served or given under these Regulations by an appropriate authority, a responsible authority, the Secretary of State or a regulator shall be in writing or if the person to be served with or given any such notice or document has provided an address for service using electronic communications, by electronic communications.

(2) Any such notice or other document may be served on or given to a person by—

(a) leaving it at his proper address;

(b) sending it by post to him at that address; or

(c) where an address for service using electronic communications has been given by that person, sending it using electronic communications to that person at that address.

(3) Any such notice or other document may—

(a) in the case of a body corporate (other than a limited liability partnership), be served on the secretary or clerk of that body;

(b) in the case of a limited liability partnership, be served on a member; or

(c) in the case of a partnership (other than a limited liability partnership), be served on or given to a partner or person having the control or management of the partnership business.

(4) For the purpose of this regulation and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1) (service of documents by post) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person on or to whom any such notice or other document is to be served or given shall be his last known address, except that—

(a) in the case of a body corporate (other than a limited liability partnership) or its secretary or clerk, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of that body;

(b) in the case of a limited liability partnership or a member of a limited liability partnership, it shall be the registered or principal office of that partnership;

(c) in the case of a partnership (other than a limited liability partnership) or person having the control or management of the partnership business, it shall be the principal office of the partnership,

and for the purposes of this paragraph the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom shall be its principal office within the United Kingdom.

(5) If the person to be served with or given any such notice or document has specified an address in the United Kingdom other than his proper address within the meaning of paragraph (4) as the one at which he or someone on his behalf will accept notices or documents of the same description as that notice or document, that address shall also be treated for the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 as his proper address.

(6) Where a notice or document is served or given using electronic communications, the service is deemed to be effected by properly addressing and transmitting the electronic communication.

(1)

1978 c. 30.