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8.—(1) A notice served or given by the Scottish Ministers or by SEPA under these Regulations or the Landfill Regulations must be in writing.
(2) A notice may be served on or given to a person by leaving it at the proper address of the person or by sending it by post to that person at that address.
(3) A notice may—
(a)in the case of a body corporate, be served on the secretary or clerk of the body,
(b)in the case of a partnership, be served on or given to a partner or person having the control or management of the partnership business.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation, and of section 7 of the 1978 Act in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person on or to whom any such notice is to be served or given is the last known address of that person, except that—
(a)in the case of a body corporate or their secretary or clerk, it is the address of the registered or principal office of that body,
(b)in the case of a partnership or person having the control or management of the partnership business, it is the principal office of the partnership.
(5) The principal office of a company registered outside of the United Kingdom, or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom, is their principal office within the United Kingdom.
(6) If the person to be served with or given any such notice has specified an address in the United Kingdom other than the proper address within the meaning of paragraph (4) as the address at which that person (or someone on behalf of that person) will accept notices of the same description as that notice, the specified address is also be treated for the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the 1978 Act as the proper address of that person.
(7) In this regulation, “1978 Act” means the Interpretation Act 1978(1).
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