Delivery of documents to the proper officerE+W
18.—(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.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 18 in force at 31.5.2022, see reg. 1(2)