The Sea Fishing (Licences and Notices) (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Delivery of licences and giving of notices

4.—(1) A licence or a notice communicated personally is to be treated as delivered or given immediately it is communicated.

(2) Subject to paragraph (5), a licence or a notice communicated by post is to be treated as delivered or given 48 hours after the end of the day on which it was posted.

(3) A licence or a notice communicated by leaving it at a nominee’s address or place of business or in the hands of a person there, or by transmission by electronic communication, is to be treated as delivered or given 24 hours after the time of leaving or transmitting.

(4) A notice effected by publication in accordance with regulation 3(2)(c) is—

(a) where it is published in a newspaper, to be treated as given at the end of the day on which it is published;

(b) where it is published on a website, to be treated as given immediately it  is  published.

(5) Where a licence or a notice—

(a) is communicated by post; and

(b) is to be treated as delivered or given, in accordance with this regulation—

(i) on a Sunday;

(ii) on a bank holiday within the meaning of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1); or

(iii) on a local holiday,

the licence or notice is to be treated as delivered or given at the end of the next day following which is not a bank holiday or a local holiday.

(1)

1971 c.80, as relevantly amended by the St Andrew’s Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 2), section 1.