Pipe-Lines Act 1962

49 Service of documents. E+W+S

(1) Any document required or authorised by this Act to be given to or served on any person may be given or served either by delivering it to that person, or by leaving it at his proper address, or by the recorded delivery service.

(2) Any such document required or authorised to be given to or served on an authority or body being a corporation shall be duly given or served if it is given to or served on the secretary or clerk of the authority or body.

(3) For the purposes of this section and of [F1 section 7 of the M1 Interpretation Act 1978], in its application to this section the proper address of any person to or on whom any such document as aforesaid is to be given or served shall, in the case of the secretary or clerk of a corporation, be that of the registered or principal office of the corporation, and in any other case be the last-known address of the person to be served:

Provided that, where the person to or on whom the document is to be given or served has, in accordance with arrangements agreed [F2 or in accordance with regulations made by virtue of the M2 Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975] furnished an address for the giving or service of the document, being an address in the United Kingdom, his proper address for the purposes aforesaid shall be the address furnished.

(4) If the name or the address of any owner, lessee or occupier of land to or on whom any such document as aforesaid is to be given or served cannot after reasonable inquiry be ascertained by the authority, body or person seeking to give or serve the document, the document may be given or served by addressing it to the person to or on whom it is to be given or served by the description of “owner”, “lessee” or “occupier” of the land (describing it) to which the document relates, and by delivering it to some responsible person resident or appearing to be resident on the premises, or, if there is no such person to whom it can be delivered, by affixing it, or a copy of it, to some conspicuous part of the premises.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 25(2)

F2 Words inserted by Petroleum Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975 (c. 74), s. 48(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 49(1)–(3) extended by Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975 (c. 74), s. 48(2)

S. 49(1)-(3) modified (15.2.1999) by 1998 c. 17, ss. 28(4), (with Sch. 3 para. 5(1)); S.I. 1999/161, art. 2(1)

S. 49(1)-(3) extended (N.I.) (15.2.1999) by 1998 c. 17, ss. 28(5), (with Sch. 3 para. 5(1)); S.I. 1999/161, art. 2

C2 S. 49(1)-(3) modified (16.9.2011) by The Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Access to Infrastructure) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2305), regs. 1, 21

Marginal Citations

M1 1978 c. 30.

M2 1975 c. 74.