Service of documents
71.—(1) This regulation has effect in relation to any notice, direction or other document required or authorised by these Regulations or SIB regulations to be given or served on any person other than the registrar of companies.
(2) Any such document may be given to or served on the person in question—
(a)by delivering it to him;
(b)by leaving it at his proper address; or
(c)by sending it by post to him at that address.
(3) Any such document may—
(a)in the case of an investment company with variable capital, be given to or served on any director of the company;
(b)in the case of any other body corporate (including any director referred to in sub-paragraph (a) above which is a body corporate) be given to or served on the secretary or clerk of that body;
(c)in the case of a partnership, be given to or served on any partner; and
(d)in the case of an unincorporated association other than a partnership, be given to or served on any member of the governing body of that association.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1) (service of documents by post) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person is his last known address (whether of his residence or of a place where he carries on business or is employed) and also—
(a)in the case of an investment company with variable capital or any of its directors, the company’s head office;
(b)in the case of any other body corporate (including any director referred to in paragraph (3)(a) above which is a body corporate) or its secretary or clerk, the address of its registered or principal office in the United Kingdom.
(c)in the case of an unincorporated association (other than a partnership) or a member of its governing body, its principal office in the United Kingdom.