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.