Service of notices
13.—(1) Any document required or authorised by virtue of these Regulations to be given to any person by the Secretary of State may be given—
(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 sub-paragraph (a) on the secretary or clerk of that body, or
(c)if the person is a partnership, by serving it in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) on a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1) (which relates to the service of documents by post) in its application to this regulation, 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 or clerk, 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 regulation 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 by virtue of these Regulations with any document by the Secretary of State has specified to the Secretary of State an address within the United Kingdom other than his proper address (as determined in pursuance of paragraph (2)) 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 regulation and for the purposes of the said section 7 in its application to this regulation.