PART 3Administration and Enforcement

F1Service of notices15A

1

Any notice required or authorised under these Regulations to be served on any person may be amended, suspended or revoked in writing at any time.

2

Any such notice may be served by—

a

delivering it to the person;

b

leaving it at the person’s proper address; or

c

sending it by post to the person at that address.

3

Any such notice may—

a

in the case of a body corporate, be served on an officer of the body;

b

in the case of a partnership, be served on a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business; and

c

in the case of an unincorporated association, be served on an officer of the association.

4

For the purposes of this regulation and section 7 (references to service by post) of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person on whom a notice is to be served is the person’s last known address except that—

a

in the case of service on a body corporate or an officer of the body, the proper address is the address of the registered or principal office of the body;

b

in the case of service on a partnership, a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business, the proper address is the address of the principal office of the partnership; and

c

in the case of service on an unincorporated association or an officer of the association, the proper address is the address of the principal office of the association.

5

If the name or address of any occupier of premises on whom a notice is to be served under these Regulations cannot, after reasonable inquiry, be ascertained, the notice may be served by leaving it conspicuously affixed to a building or object on the premises.

6

A notice may specify that a person in receipt of it must immediately inform an inspector of its safe receipt.

7

In this regulation —

  • “body corporate” includes a limited liability partnership,

  • “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate,

  • “officer”, in relation to a body corporate, means any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate,

  • “partnership” does not include a limited liability partnership.