Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991

84 Service of notices, etc.. S

(1) Any notice or other document required or authorised by or under this Act to be given to or served on any person shall be duly given or served if it is delivered to him, or left at his proper address, or sent to him by registered post or recorded delivery.

(2) Any such document required or authorised to be given to or served on an incorporated company or body shall be duly given or served if it is delivered to or sent by registered post or recorded delivery to the registered office of the company or body.

(3) For the purposes of this section and of section 7 of the M1 Interpretation Act 1978, the proper address of any person to or on whom any such document as aforesaid is to be given or served shall, in the case of the secretary or clerk of any 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 in question.

(4) Unless or until the tenant of an agricultural holding shall have received notice that the person previously entitled to receive the rents and profits of the holding (hereinafter referred to as “the original landlord”) has ceased to be so entitled, and also notice of the name and address of the person who has become so entitled, any notice or other document served on or delivered to the original landlord by the tenant shall be deemed to have been served on or delivered to the landlord of the holding.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 84(4) applied (13.6.2017) by Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 18), ss. 114(4), 130(1) (with s. 128); S.S.I. 2017/20, reg. 2, sch.

Marginal Citations

M1 1978 c. 30.