67 Service of documents.E+W+S
(1)Any document required or authorised by virtue of this Part of this Act to be served on a person may be so served—
(a)by delivering it to him or by leaving it at his proper address or by sending it by post to him at that address, or
(b)if the person is a body corporate, by serving it in accordance with paragraph (a) above on the secretary or clerk of that body, or
(c)if the person is a partnership, by serving it in accordance with paragrah (a) above on a partner or on a person having the control or management of the partnership business.
(2)for the purposes of subsection (1) above and of section 7 of the M1Interpretation Act 1978 (which relates to the service of documents by post) in its application to that subsection, the proper address of any person on whom a document is to be served by virtue of this Part of this Act shall be his last known address except that—
(a)in the case of service on a body corporate or its secretary or clerk, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of the body, and
(b)in the case of service on a partnership or a partner or a person having the control or management of a partnership business, it shall be the principal office of the partnership;
and for the purposes of this subsection, the principal office of a company registered outside the United Kingdom or a partnership carrying on business outside the Kingdom is its principal office within the United Kingdom.
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