Forestry Act 1967

[F1 30 Service of documents. E+W+S

(1) Any document required or authorised to be served under this Part of this Act may be served on a person either by delivering it to him, or by leaving it at his proper address, or by sending it through the post in a registered letter addressed to him at that address or in a letter sent by the recorded delivery service and so addressed.

(2) Any such document required or authorised to be served upon an incorporated company or body shall be duly served if it is served upon the secretary or clerk of the company or body [F2 or, in the case of service by the Commissioners, upon a director of the company or body].

(3) For the purposes of this section and of [F3 section 7 of the M1 Interpretation Act 1978], the proper address of any person upon whom any such document as aforesaid is to be served shall, in the case of the secretary or clerk [F4 or director] of an incorporated company or body, be that of the registered or principal office of the company or body, and in any other case be the last known address of the person to be served:

Provided that, where the person to be served has furnished an address for service, his proper address for the said purposes shall be the address furnished.

(4) If it is not practicable to ascertain the name or address of an owner, lessee or occupier of land on whom any such document as aforesaid is to be served, the document may be served by addressing it to him by the description of “owner”, “lessee” or “occupier” of the land (describing it) to which it relates, and by delivering it to some responsible person on the land or, if there is no such person on the land to whom it may be delivered, by affixing it or a copy of it to some conspicuous part of the land.

(5) The [F5 appropriate forestry authority] may, for the purpose of enabling them to serve or give any document or direction under this Part of this Act, require the occupier of any land and any person who, either directly or indirectly, receives rent in respect of any land [F6 , and the owner of any land in England], to state in writing the nature of his interest therein and the name and address of any other person known to him as having an interest therein, whether as a freeholder or owner, mortgagee or creditor in a heritable security, lessee or otherwise; and anyone who, having been required in pursuance of this subsection to give any information, fails to give it, or knowingly makes any mis-statement in respect thereof, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [F7 level 1 on the standard scale].

[F8 (6) For the purposes of this section, any reference in this Part to the giving of a notice or document by the Natural Resources Body for Wales is to be treated as if it were a reference to the serving of a document.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Act repealed (S.) (1.4.2019) by Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 8), s. 85(2), sch. 2 (with ss. 80, 83); S.S.I. 2019/47, reg. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 3-22 (as amended (18.3.2021) by The Forestry and Land Management (Scotland) Act 2018 (Consequential, Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/44), regs. 1(1), 11(2)(b)(3)(a)))

F2 Words in s. 30(2) inserted (1.1.2023) by Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), s. 147(3), Sch. 16 para. 7(2) (with s. 144); S.I. 2022/1266, reg. 2(d)

F3 Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30, SIF 115:1), s. 17(2)(a)

F4 Words in s. 30(3) inserted (1.1.2023) by Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), s. 147(3), Sch. 16 para. 7(3) (with s. 144); S.I. 2022/1266, reg. 2(d)

F5 Words in s. 30(5) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 69 (with Sch. 7)

F6 Words in s. 30(5) inserted (1.1.2023) by Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), s. 147(3), Sch. 16 para. 8 (with s. 144); S.I. 2022/1266, reg. 2(d)

F7 Words substituted (E.W.) by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46; and (S.) by virtue of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1;), ss. 289F, 289G

F8 S. 30(6) inserted (18.8.2023 for specified purposes, 1.4.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 4), ss. 43(2), 56(1)(a); S.I. 2023/1092, art. 3(a)

Marginal Citations

M1 1978 c. 30(115:1)