The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009

Service of notices

39.—(1) Any document required or authorised by virtue of these Regulations to be given to any person by the approval authority may be given—

(a) by delivering it to that person or by leaving it at that person’s proper address,

(b) by sending it by registered or recorded delivery post to that person at that address, or

(c) if the person is a body corporate, by serving it in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) or (b) on the secretary, clerk or principal officer of that body,

(d) if the person is a partnership, by serving it in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) or (b) on a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business, or

(e) by means of any form of electronic communication agreed with the person to whom it is to be sent.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1) (service of documents by post) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of a person is—

(a) in the case of an individual, that person’s last known address,

(b) in the case of the secretary, clerk or principal officer of a body corporate, the address of the registered office of the body or its principal office in the United Kingdom,

(c) in the case of a partner in, or a person having the control or management of, a partnership, it is the address of the principal office of the partnership in the United Kingdom,

but subject to paragraph (3).

(3) If a person to be served by virtue of these Regulations with any document by the approval authority has notified the approval authority of an address within the United Kingdom other than that person’s proper address at which that person, or another acting on that person’s behalf, will accept service of any document of that description, that address is the person’s proper address.

(1)

1978 c.30.