The Non-Domestic Rating (Persons Required to Supply Information and Service of Notices) (Wales) Regulations 2022

Service of notices

4.—(1) Without prejudice to section 233 of the Local Government Act 1972(1) (service of notice by local authorities) and subject to paragraph (4), a billing authority may serve a notice on any person to whom paragraph 5(1D) of Schedule 9 to the Act applies—

(a) by hand delivering it to the person;

(b) by leaving it at the person’s proper address;

(c) by sending it to the person’s proper address by post;

(d) by sending it to the person by electronic communication.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a person’s proper address is—

(a) in the case of a body corporate, the address of the registered or principal office of the body;

(b) in the case of a partnership, the address of the principal office of the partnership;

(c) in any other case, the person’s last known address.

(3) The notice is to be treated as having been hand delivered under paragraph (1)(a)—

(a) in the case of a body corporate, if it is hand delivered to the secretary or clerk of the body;

(b) in the case of a partnership, if it is hand delivered to a partner or a person having control or management of the partnership business.

(4) Where any notice is to be served on a person specified in paragraph 5(1D)(a) or (b) of Schedule 9 to the Act, such notice may be addressed by the description of “owner” or “occupier” of the hereditament, without further name or description.

(1)

1972 c. 70.