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(1)Subject to any requirement of this Part of this Act with respect to the manner in which a person may be provided with any such document, he may be provided with the following documents by post (but without prejudice to any other method of providing him with them), that is to say—
(a)any of the statutory statements mentioned in Schedule 4 to this Act, and
(b)any of the documents mentioned in section 66(2) of this Act.
(2)Where a notice requesting a hearing in respect of an offence is permitted by a fixed penalty notice or notice to owner relating to that offence to be given by post, section 7 of the M1Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents by post) shall apply as if that notice were permitted to be so given by this Act.
(3)A notice to owner may be served on any person—
(a)by delivering it to him or by leaving it at his proper address, or
(b)by sending it to him by post,
and where the person on whom such a notice is to be served is a body corporate it is duly served if it is served on the secretary or clerk of that body.
(4)For the purposes of this Part of this Act and of section 7 of the M2Interpretation Act 1978 as it applies for the purposes of subsection (3) above the proper address of any person in relation to the service on him of a notice to owner is—
(a)in the case of the secretary or clerk of a body corporate, that of the registered or principal office of that body or the registered address of the person who is or was the registered keeper of the vehicle concerned at the time of service, and
(b)in any other case, his last known address at the time of service.
(5)In subsection (4) above, “registered address”, in relation to the registered keeper of a vehicle, means the address recorded in the record kept under [F1the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994] with respect to that vehicle as being that person’s address.
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F1Words in s. 85(5) substituted (1.9.1994) by 1994 c. 22, s. 63, Sch. 3 para. 25(1) (with s. 57(4))
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