The Life Sentence Review Commissioners' Rules 2001

Transmission of documents etc

21.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any document required or authorised by these rules to be served on or otherwise transmitted to any person may be sent by pre-paid post or delivered:—

(a) in the case of a document directed to the Commissioners, to the office of the Commissioners;

(b) in the case of a document directed to the Secretary of State, to the Northern Ireland Prison Service Headquarters;

(c) in any other case, to the last known address of the person to whom the document is directed.

(2) Service of any document required to be served or otherwise transmitted under these rules may be effected by FAX where:—

(a) the technical facilities are available to the parties and the parties consent to and agree upon mode of service;

(b) the parties agree the specified FAX numbers to which the document is transmitted; and

(c) not later than one day after service by FAX, the party serving the document dispatches a copy of it to the other party or parties, as required by these rules, by any of the means prescribed for service under paragraph (1), and if he fails to do so, the document shall be deemed never to have been served by FAX.

(3) Where the FAX is transmitted on a working day before 5.00 pm it shall, unless the contrary is shown, be deemed to be served on that day, and, in any other case, on the working day next following.

(4) In this rule “FAX” means the making of a facsimile copy of a document by the transmission of electronic signals.