SCHEDULE 1Procedure in adjudication proceedings

PART 3Service of documents

Delivery of documents to the proper officerI118

1

This paragraph applies to any notice or other document required or authorised by or under this Schedule to be delivered to the proper officer (a “PO document”).

2

A PO document may be delivered to the proper officer by being transmitted to the proper officer by fax or other means of electronic data transmission, but only to a FAX telephone number or, as the case may be, electronic address for the time being published by the proper officer for the purpose of receiving PO documents.

3

Unless the contrary is proved, any PO document transmitted in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) is to be taken to have been delivered on the second working day after the day on which it was transmitted.

4

Where the address of the proper officer includes a box number at a document exchange, the delivery of such a document may be effected by leaving the document addressed to that box number—

a

at that document exchange, or

b

at a document exchange which transmits documents every working day to that exchange.

5

Unless the contrary is proved, any PO document which is left at a document exchange in accordance with sub-paragraph (4) is to be taken to have been delivered on the second working day after the day on which it was left.