The Clean Air (Miscellaneous Provisions) (England) Regulations 2014

Provisions relating to section 36 notices

7.—(1) A notice served by post pursuant to section 233 of the Local Government Act 1972(1) (service of notices by local authorities) must be sent in a prepaid letter by recorded delivery.

(2) A document purporting to be a copy of a notice signed by the proper officer of a local authority, and bearing a certificate purporting to be signed by the proper officer as to the date when and the person upon whom the notice was served, is evidence that a notice in the terms of the copy was duly authorised to be given by the local authority and was served in accordance with the facts stated in the certificate.

(3) In this regulation “proper officer” means an officer appointed by a local authority for the purposes of Part 5 of the Clean Air Act 1993 and includes any person authorised to act in that behalf by an officer so appointed.

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1972 c. 70; section 233 was amended by Schedule 2 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (c. 57), section 84 of, and paragraph 29 of Schedule 14 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Part 1 of Schedule 13 to the Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40), paragraph 14(d) of Schedule 4 to the Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994 (c. 29), paragraphs 22 and 31(d) of Schedule 6, and Part 5 of Schedule 7, to the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 (c. 16), paragraphs 1 and 21 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (c. 28), paragraphs 10 and 32 of Schedule 6 to the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20) and paragraphs 100 and 114 of Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13).