PART 1 GENERAL

1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Antarctic Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint and different days may be appointed for different provisions and different purposes.

2 Interpretation
1 In these Regulations “the Act” means the Antarctic Act 1994, and expressions used in these Regulations have, unless the contrary intention appears, the meaning which they bear in the Act.
2 Any reference in these Regulations to a communication “in writing” shall include a reference to a communication by telex, facsimile or other similar instantaneous means which produces a document containing a text of the communication.
3 Any reference in these Regulations to the Secretary of State with respect to the application, grant, production, revocation or suspension of a permit for the purposes of section 11 or 12 of the Act shall include a reference to any person exercising the powers of the Secretary of State for those purposes in accordance with a delegation given under section 16 of the Act.
4 Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.
5 Any period of time specified in these Regulations by reference to days, working days or months—
(a) where such period is expressed to begin after a particular date, shall begin on the first day after that date, and shall be inclusive of the last day unless that day falls on a Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or any other day appointed by law to be a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom, in which case the period shall run to the immediately following working day; and
(b) where such period is expressed to run or to expire before a particular date or event, the period shall be calculated to expire on the last working day before the particular date or the date of that event.
6 In computing any period of time specified in these Regulations by reference to working days there shall be disregarded the whole of any Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or any other day appointed by law to be a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom.

3 Service of documents
1 Anything required to be served on any person under these Regulations or the Act shall be set out in a notice in writing which may be served either—
(a) by delivering it to that person;
(b) by leaving it at his proper address;
(c) by sending it by post to that address; or
(d) by sending it to him at that address by telex, facsimile or other similar instantaneous means which produces a document containing a text of the communication, in which event the document shall be regarded as served when it is transmitted,
and where the person is a body corporate the document may be served, by any of these means, upon the Secretary of that body.
2 When a document is sent by post it shall be deemed to have been received 3 working days after despatch if posted to an address within the United Kingdom and 7 working days if posted to an address elsewhere.
3 For the purposes of this regulation the proper address of any person shall in the case of a body corporate be the registered or principal office of that body and in any other case shall be the last known address of the person.