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3.—(1) A document required or allowed by the Act to be given to a person by the Secretary of State must be given—
(a)by sending it by email to that person’s email address (or the email address of their representative), as provided for in regulation 4, or
(b)by posting it to that person’s postal address (or the postal address of that person’s representative), as provided for in regulation 5.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), “posting” a document means sending that document pre-paid by a postal service intended to ensure expeditious delivery.
(3) A document sent by email in accordance with paragraph (1)(a) is to be treated as having been given immediately after it is sent.
(4) A document posted in accordance with paragraph (1)(b)—
(a)to an address within the United Kingdom, is to be treated as having been given on the second working day after posting;
(b)to an address outside the United Kingdom, is to be treated as having been given on the fifth working day after posting.
(5) When giving a document under this regulation, the Secretary of State must mark it as being for the attention of the person to whom it is required or allowed to be given under the Act.
(6) Where the person referred to in paragraph (5) is a body corporate or unincorporate, the document being given to that person must additionally be marked as being for the attention of an officer or member of that body (as the case may be) whom the Secretary of State considers to be appropriate.
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