The Police Act 1997 (Provisions in relation to the NCIS Service Authority) Order 1998

Service of notices by the Authority

K11.—(1) Paragraphs (2) to (5) below shall have effect in relation to any notice, order or other document required or authorised by or under any enactment to be given to or served on any person by or on behalf of the Authority or by an officer of the Authority.

(2) Any such document may be given to or served on the person in question either by delivering it to him, or by leaving it at his proper address, or by sending it by post to him at that address.

(3) Any such document may—

(a) in the case of a body corporate, be given to or served on the secretary or clerk of that body;

(b) in the case of a partnership, be given to or served on a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business.

(4) For the purpose of this article and of section 27 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1) (service of documents by post) in its application to this article, the proper address of any person to or on whom a document is to be given or served shall be his last known address, except that—

(a) in the case of a body corporate or their secretary or clerk, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of that body;

(b) in the case of a partnership or a person having the control or management of the partnership business, it shall be that of the principal office of the partnership;

and for the purposes of this paragraph the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom shall be their principal office within the United Kingdom.

(5) If the person to be given or served with any document mentioned in paragraph (1) above has specified an address within the United Kingdom other than his proper address within the meaning of paragraph (4) above as the one at which he or someone on his behalf will accept documents of the same description, as that document, that address shall also be treated for the purpose of this article and section 27 of the Interpretation Act 1978 as his proper address.

(6) If the name or address of any owner, lessee or occupier of land to or on whom any document mentioned in paragraph (1) above is to be given or served cannot after reasonable inquiry be ascertained, the document may be given or served either by leaving it in the hands of a person who is or appears to be resident or employed on the land or by leaving it conspicuously affixed to some building or object on the land.

(7) The foregoing provisions of this article do not apply to a document which is to be given or served in any proceedings in court.

(8) Except as aforesaid and subject to any provision of any enactment or instrument excluding the foregoing provisions of this article, the methods of giving or serving documents which are available under those provisions are in addition to the methods which are available under any other enactment or any instrument made under any enactment.

(1)

1978 c. 30.