Service of notices
30.—(1) Any notice required by virtue of these Regulations to be given to any person by the National Assembly may be given by it—
(a)by delivering it to that person or by leaving it at that person’s proper address or by sending it by post to that person’s proper address;
(b)if the person is a body corporate other than a limited liability partnership, by giving it in accordance with paragraph (a) to the secretary of the body;
(c)if the person is a limited liability partnership, by giving it in accordance with paragraph (a) to a member of the partnership; or
(d)if the person is a partnership, by giving it in accordance with paragraph (a) to a partner or a person having control of the management of the partnership business.
(2) For the purposes of this section and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1) (service of documents by post) in its application to this section, the proper address of any person to whom a notice is to be given shall be that person’s last known address, except that—
(a)in the case of a body corporate (other than a limited liability partnership) or its secretary, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of the body;
(b)in the case of a limited liability partnership or a member of the partnership, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of the partnership; and
(c)in the case of 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.
(3) Paragraph (4) applies if a person to be given a notice under these Regulations by the National Assembly has specified to the National Assembly an address within the United Kingdom other than the proper address (as determined under paragraph (2)) as the one at which the person or someone on the person’s behalf will accept notices of that description.
(4) In relation to that notice, that address shall be treated as the proper address for the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this regulation, instead of that determined under paragraph (2).