The Land Registration (Hearings Procedure) Rules 2000

Service of documents

18.—(1) For the purposes of these rules, a party may give an address for service of any order, direction, notice or other document, but in the case of a registered proprietor or cautioner unless otherwise specified his address for service shall be the address given on the register.

(2) Where these rules require or authorise any order, direction, notice or other document to be served on or delivered to any person, they may be sent by post to his address for service or, where no address for service has been given, his registered office, principal place of business, head or main office or last known address, as appropriate. Any notice, application or other document addressed to the Registrar must be sent to 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH, or as he otherwise directs.

(3) Any order, direction, notice or other document required or authorised under these rules to be served on, or delivered to, an unincorporated body may be sent to its secretary, manager or similar officer.

(4) Every order, direction, notice or other document served under these rules by post will be assumed, in the absence of contrary evidence, to have been delivered in the normal course of post.

(5) The Registrar may direct that service under these rules of any order, direction, notice or other document be dispensed with or permit service by an alternative method.

(6) Rule 311(1) of the principal rules does not apply to any notice required or authorised to be served on or delivered to any person under these rules.

(7) The following provisions of the principal rules do not apply to any notice or other document required or authorised to be served on or delivered to any person under these rules:

(a) rule 311(3);

(b) rule 313;

(c) rule 315.