The Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Giving of notice

5.—(1) A notice required or authorised to be sent to a person under this Schedule may be effected by—

(a) delivering it to the person at an address which is their proper address;

(b) sending it to the person by post to an address which is their proper address; or

(c) transmitting to the person a facsimile copy of it by means of electronic signals.

(2) Any such document may—

(a) in the case of a body corporate, be sent to the secretary or clerk of that body;

(b) in the case of a partnership, be sent to any partner; or

(c) in the case of an unincorporated association other than a partnership, be sent to any member of the governing body of the association.

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph and section 24 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) the proper address of any person is their last known address (whether the person’s residence or a place where that person carries on business or is employed) and also any address applicable to that person under the following provisions—

(a) in the case of a body corporate, its secretary or its clerk, the address of its registered or principal office in the United Kingdom;

(b) in the case of an unincorporated association (other than a partnership) or member of its governing body, its principal office in the United Kingdom.

(4) Where a person has in the licence-holder’s application notified the Department of an address, or, subsequently notified a new address under regulation 23, at which documents may be given for the purposes of correspondence that address shall also be the person’s proper address for service for the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) or, as the case may be, the person’s proper address for those purposes in substitution for that previously notified.

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1954 c.33 (N.I.)