The Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999

Service of notices U.K.

14.—(1) Any notice or other document required or authorised to be given or served on any person under these Regulations may be given or served by–

(a) delivering it to that person;

(b) leaving it at his proper address; or

(c) sending it to his proper address by the recorded delivery service.

(2) Any notice or other document required or authorised to be served on, or given to, any body corporate or unincorporated association other than a partnership shall be duly given or served on the secretary or clerk or other similar officer of that body.

(3) Any notice or other document required or authorised to be served on, or given to, any partnership may be served on or given to a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business.

(4) Subject to paragraph (5) below, for the purpose of this regulation, the proper address of any person on whom or to whom any such notice or document is to be served or given shall be his last known address except that such address shall be–

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

(b) in the case of an unincorporated association (other than a partnership) or their secretary or clerk, the address of the principal office of the association; and

(c) in the case of a partnership or a person having control or the management of the partnership business, the address 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 its principal office within the United Kingdom.

(5) If the person to be served with or given any such notice or document has furnished the person by whom the notice or document is to be served or given with an address pursuant to any provision of these Regulations, that address shall also be treated for the purposes of this regulation as his proper address.