The Child Benefit and Guardian’s Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2003

Service of notices or documents

3.—(1) Where, under any provision of these Regulations—

(a) a notice or other document is required to be given or sent to the clerk to the appeal tribunal or the Board, the notice or document is to be treated as having been so given or sent on the day that it is received by the clerk or the Board;

(b) a notice (including notification of a decision of the Board) or other document is required to be given or sent to any person other than clerk to the appeal tribunal or the Board, the notice or document is, if sent by post to that person’s last known address, to be treated as having been given or sent on the day that it was posted.

(2) In these Regulations, “the date of notification”, in relation to a decision of the Board, means the date on which notification of the decision is treated under paragraph (1)(b) as having been given or sent.