Patronage (Appeals) Rules 1988

Notices and other documents

24.—(1) Except where otherwise expressly provided, all notices, pleadings, applications, orders, directions and consents required or authorised by these Rules to be served, sent, given or made shall be in writing.

(2) Where any of these Rules requires the use of a document in a form set out in the Appendix, and that form is not in all respects appropriate, these Rules shall be construed as requiring the use of a form of the like character, with such variations as circumstances may require.

(3) Subject to paragraph (5) of this rule and to rule 26, any notice or other document required or authorised by these Rules to be served on or to be sent or given to any person shall be duly served on or sent or given to that person if it is delivered to him, or left at his proper address, or sent by first class post to his proper address.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5) of this rule and to rule 26, for the purposes of paragraph (3) of this rule and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this rule, the proper address of a person on or to whom any such notice or other document is required or authorised to be served, sent or given shall be–

(a) the business address of the solicitor (if any) who is acting for that person in the appeal; or, if none

(b) that person’s usual or last known address.

(5) Any document required by these Rules to be lodged with the registrar may be so lodged–

(a) by delivering the document to the registry; or

(b) by sending it by post to the registrar at the registry (save that lodging shall not be treated as effected by sending by post until actual delivery of the document at the registry).