(1)If a notice required or authorised by this Part to be given or sent by or to a person or to be served on a person is sent by an electronic communication, it is to be treated as given, sent or served only if the requirements of subsection (2) or (3) are met.
(2)If the person required or authorised to give, send or serve the notice is Monitor or the Competition Commission—
(a)the person to whom the notice is given or sent or on whom it is served must have indicated to Monitor or (as the case may be) the Commission the person’s willingness to receive notices by an electronic communication and provided an address suitable for that purpose, and
(b)the notice must be sent to or given or served at the address so provided.
(3)If the person required or authorised to give, send or serve the notice is not Monitor or the Competition Commission, the notice must be given, sent or served in such manner as Monitor may require.
(4)An indication given for the purposes of subsection (2) may be given generally for the purposes of notices required or authorised to be given, sent or served by Monitor or (as the case may be) the Competition Commission under this Part or may be limited to notices of a particular description.
(5)Monitor must publish such requirements as it imposes under subsection (3).