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Building Act 1984

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92Form of documents

(1)All—

(a)notices, orders, consents, demands and other documents authorised or required by or under this Act to be given, made or issued by a local authority, and

(b)notices and applications authorised or required by or under this Act to be given or made to, or to any officer of, a local authority,

shall be in writing.

(2)The Secretary of State may, by regulations made by statutory instrument, prescribe the form of any notice, advertisement, certificate or other document to be used for any of the purposes of this Act, and if forms are so prescribed those forms or forms to the like effect may be used in all cases to which those forms are applicable.

93Authentication of documents

(1)A notice, order, consent, demand or other document that a local authority are authorised or required by or under this Act to give, make or issue may be signed on behalf of the authority—

(a)by the proper officer of the authority or the district surveyor, as respects documents relating to matters within his province, or

(b)by an officer of the authority authorised by them in writing to sign documents of the particular kind or, as the case may be, the particular document.

(2)A document purporting to bear the signature of an officer—

(a)expressed to hold an office by virtue of which he is under this section empowered to sign such a document, or

(b)expressed to be authorised by the local authority to sign such a document or the particular document,

is deemed, for the purposes of this Act and of any building regulations and orders made under it, to have been duly given, made or issued by authority of the local authority, until the contrary is proved.

(3)In subsection (2) above, “signature ” includes a facsimile of a signature by whatever process reproduced.

94Service of documents

A notice, order, consent, demand or other document that is authorised or required by or under this Act to be given to or served on a person may, in any case for which no other provision is made by this Act, be given or served either—

(a)by delivering it to that person,

(b)in the case of an officer of a local authority, by leaving it, or sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to him, at his office,

(c)in the case of any other person, by leaving it, or sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to him, at his usual or last known residence,

(d)in the case of an incorporated company or body, by delivering it to their secretary or clerk at their registered or principal office, or by sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to him at that office,

(e)in the case of a document to be given to or served on a person as being the owner of any premises by virtue of the fact that he receives the rackrent thereof as agent for another, or would so receive it if the premises were let at a rackrent, by leaving it, or sending it in a prepaid letter addressed to him, at his place of business,

(f)in the case of a document to be given to or served on the owner or the occupier of any premises, if it is not practicable after reasonable inquiry to ascertain the name and address of the person to or on whom it should be given or served, or if the premises are unoccupied, by addressing it to the person concerned by the description of “owner ” or “occupier ” of the premises (naming them) to which it relates, and delivering it to some person on the premises, or, if there is no person on die premises to whom it can be delivered, by affixing it, or a copy of it, to some conspicuous part of the premises.

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