Part 5Social care and social work: scrutiny and improvement
Chapter 5Miscellaneous
101Giving of notice
(1)
In Chapters 3 and 4, any reference to a notice being given to a person providing, or seeking to provide, a care service is to be construed as a reference to its being—
(a)
delivered, where the person is—
(i)
an individual, to that individual,
(ii)
a body corporate, to the secretary or clerk of that body, or
(iii)
a firm, to a partner of that firm, or
(b)
sent by post, properly addressed to the person, in a registered letter or by the recorded delivery service,
but a notice sent by post is taken not to have been received until the third day after the day of posting.
(2)
For the purposes of subsection (1), a letter is properly addressed to—
(a)
a body corporate, if addressed to the body at its registered or principal office,
(b)
a firm, if addressed to the firm at its principal office, or
(c)
any other person, if addressed to the person at the address last known.