[F1Service of noticesU.K.
15A.—(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.]
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