[F1100E Service of directions under section 100C.U.K.
(1)If the Secretary of State is satisfied that a company or other body is not one to which section 695 or section 725 of the M1Companies Act 1985 (service of notices) applies so as to authorise the service of a direction on that body under either of those sections, he may give a direction under section 100C of this Act to that body, as the owner of, or the person in possession of, a ship, by serving the direction on the master of the ship.
(2)For the purpose of giving or serving a direction under section 100C to or on any person on a ship, a person acting on behalf of the Secretary of State shall have the right to go on board the ship.
(3)In the application of subsection (1) above to Northern Ireland, for references to sections 695 and 725 of the M2Companies Act 1985 there shall be substituted references to Articles 645 and 673 of the M3Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 100C-100E inserted (23.3.1997) by 1997 c. 28, s. 10; S.I. 1997/1082, art. 2, Sch.
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