Service by post or electronicallyE+W
3.—(1) This regulation makes provision about the service of documents under these Regulations, other than notices or orders made by a county court.
(2) A notice or charge certificate which is required by these Regulations to be served by post—
(a)may be served by first class (but not second class) post, and
(b)where the person on whom it is to be served or to whom it is to be given is a body corporate, is duly served or given if it is sent by first class post to the secretary or clerk of that body.
(3) Service of such a notice or charge certificate contained in a letter sent by first class post which has been properly addressed, pre-paid and posted is to be taken to have been effected on the second working day after the day of posting.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3) “working day” means any day except—
(a)a Saturday or a Sunday,
(b)New Year’s Day,
(c)Good Friday,
(d)Christmas Day, or
(e)any other day which is a bank holiday in England and Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1).
(5) A document may be transmitted to a vehicle-hire firm by means of electronic data transmission where—
(a)the vehicle-hire firm has indicated in writing to the person sending the document that it is willing to regard a document as having been duly sent to it if it is transmitted to a specified electronic address, and
(b)the document is transmitted to that address.