The Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Service of notices

41.—(1) Any notice required to be given to any person by the Scottish Ministers by virtue of these Regulations may be given by them–

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

(b) if the person is a body corporate or a partnership by giving it in accordance with paragraph (a) to the responsible person at the address of the registered or principal office of that body corporate or partnership; or

(c) if the notice is in connection with a licensed seed testing station by giving it in accordance with paragraph (a) to the Person in Charge.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1)(service of documents by post) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person to whom a notice is to be given shall be that person’s last known address, which in the case of a body corporate or a partnership shall be the last known address of the registered or principal office of the body corporate or partnership;

(3) Paragraph (4) applies if a person to be given a notice under these Regulations by the Scottish Ministers has specified to them an address within the United Kingdom other than that person’s proper address (as determined under paragraph (2)) as the one at which notices of that description will be accepted.

(4) An address specified in accordance with paragraph (3) shall be treated as the person’s 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).

(1)

1978 c. 30.