26.—(1) Any notice required or authorised to be served under these Regulations to any person may be given by—
(a)delivering it to the person;
(b)leaving it at the person’s proper address; or
(c)sending it by post to the person at that address.
(2) Any such notice which is to be served on a body corporate or an unincorporated association other than a partnership must be served on an officer of the body corporate or unincorporated association.
(3) Any such notice which is to be served on a partnership (including a Scottish partnership) must be served on a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person on whom a notice is to be served is—
(a)in the case of a body corporate, the address of the registered or principal office of the body corporate;
(b)in the case of an unincorporated association (other than a partnership), the address of the principal office of the unincorporated association;
(c)in the case of a partnership (including a Scottish partnership), the address of the registered or principal office of the partnership; and
(d)in any other case, the last known address of the person in question.
(5) If a person on whom a notice is to be served under these Regulations has specified an address for service of such a notice, that address is also to be treated, for the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this regulation, as that person’s proper address.
(6) If the name or address of any occupier of premises on whom a notice is to be served under these Regulations cannot, after reasonable inquiry, be ascertained, the notice may be served by leaving it conspicuously affixed to a building or object on the premises.
(7) In this regulation—
(a)“body corporate” does not include a partnership; and
(b)references to serving include references to similar expressions (such as giving or sending).