The General Commissioners (Jurisdiction and Procedure) Regulations 1994

Service

26.—(1) Any notice or other document (other than a summons under regulation 4) required or authorised by these Regulations to be sent or delivered to, or served on, any person shall be duly sent or delivered to, or served on, that person—

(a) if it is sent to him at his proper address by post; or

(b) if it is sent to him at that address by facsimile transmission or other similar means which produce a document containing a text of the communication, in which event the document shall be regarded as sent when it is received in a legible form; or

(c) if it is delivered to him or left at his proper address.

(2) Any such document may—

(a) in the case of a body corporate, be sent or delivered to, or left with, the secretary or clerk of that body;

(b) in the case of a foreign body corporate, be sent or delivered to, or left with, the person authorised to accept service of process on it;

(c) in the case of a partnership, be sent or delivered to, or left with, any partner;

(d) in the case of an unincorporated association other than a partnership, be sent or delivered to, or left with, any member of the governing body of the association.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a person’s proper address is—

(a) in the case of the secretary or clerk of a body corporate registered in the United Kingdom, the address of the registered or principal office of that body corporate;

(b) in the case of the person authorised to accept service of process on a foreign body corporate, the address of the principal office or place of business of that body corporate in the United Kingdom;

(c) in the case of the General Commissioners for a division or their Clerk, the address of the Clerk;

(d) in the case of any other person, the usual or last known address of that person.