The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016

Postal delivery of documentsE+W

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1.42.—(1) A document is delivered if it is sent by post in accordance with the provisions of this rule.

(2) First class or second class post may be used to deliver a document except where these Rules require first class post to be used.

(3) Unless the contrary is shown—

(a)a document sent by first class post is treated as delivered on the second business day after the day on which it is posted;

(b)a document sent by second class post is treated as delivered on the fourth business day after the day on which it is posted;

(c)where a post-mark appears on the envelope in which a document was posted, the date of that post-mark is to be treated as the date on which the document was posted.

(4) In this rule “post-mark” means a mark applied by a postal operator which records the date on which a letter entered the postal system of the postal operator.

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