Agriculture Act 1993

Supplementary E+W+S

47 Service of documents. E+W+S

(1) Any document required or authorised under this Part of this Act to be served on any person may be served—

(a) by delivering it to him or by leaving it at his proper address or by sending it by post to him at that address, or

(b) if the person is a body corporate, by serving it in accordance with paragraph (a) above on the secretary of that body, or

(c) if the person is a partnership, by serving it in accordance with paragraph (a) above on a partner or a person having control or management of the partnership business.

(2) For the purposes of this section and section 7 of the M1 Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to the service of documents by post) in its application to this section, the proper address of any person on whom a document is to be served shall be his last known address, except that—

(a) in the case of service on a body corporate or its secretary, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of the body;

(b) in the case of service on a partnership or a partner or a person having the control or management of a partnership business, it shall be the address of the principal office of the partnership;

and for the purposes of this subsection the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or of a partnership carrying on business outside the United Kingdom is its principal office within the United Kingdom.

(3) If a person to be served under this Part of this Act with any document by another has specified to that other an address within the United Kingdom other than his proper address (as determined under subsection (2) above) as the one at which he or someone on his behalf will accept documents of the same description as that document, that address shall also be treated as his proper address for the purposes of this section and for the purposes of section 7 of the M2 Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this section.

(4) In this section “secretary”, in relation to a local authority within the meaning of the M3 Local Government Act 1972 or the M4 Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, means the proper officer within the meaning of that Act.

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Marginal Citations

M1 1978 c. 30.

M2 1978 c. 30.

M3 1972 c. 70.

M4 1973 c. 65.

48 Consequential amendments. E+W+S

The Ministers may by order make such modifications of any provision contained in any Act passed, or subordinate legislation made, before the day on which section 26(1) above comes into force as appear to them to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the coming into force of that provision.

49 Interpretation of Part II. E+W+S

(1) In this Part of this Act—

• “approved scheme” means a transfer scheme approved under section 28 above (with any variations approved under section 30 above);

• “the Board” means the Potato Marketing Board;

• “notice” means notice in writing;

• “registered producers” means persons registered as producers under the Potato Marketing Scheme; and

• “transfer scheme” has the meaning given by section 27(1) above.

(2) In this Part of this Act, references to the Ministers are to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, and, in relation to things done by the Ministers, are to those ministers acting jointly.