The Plant Protection Products (Scotland) Regulations 2005

Service of documents

25.—(1) Any document required or authorised under these Regulations to be served by the Scottish Ministers on any person may be served–

(a)by delivering it to that person or by leaving it at the proper address of that person or by sending it by post to that person at that address;

(b)if the person is a body corporate, by serving it in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above on the secretary of that body; or

(c)if the person is a partnership, by serving it in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) above on a partner or a person having control or management of the partnership business.

(2) For the purpose of this regulation and section 7 (which relates to the service of documents by post) of the Interpretation Act 1978(1) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person on whom a document is to be served shall be the last known address of that person, except that–

(a)in the case of service on a body corporate or its secretary, it shall be the address of the registered or principal office of the body; or

(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 address of the principal office of the partnership,

and for the purpose of this paragraph the principal office of a company registered outside Scotland or of a partnership carrying on business outside Scotland includes its principal office within Scotland.

(3) If a person to be served under these Regulations with any document has specified to the Scottish Ministers an address within Great Britain other than the proper address of that person (as determined under paragraph (2) above) as the one at which that person or someone on behalf of that person will accept documents of the same description as that document, that address shall also be treated as the proper address of that person for the purposes of this regulation and for the purposes of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this regulation.

(4) In this regulation “secretary”, in relation to a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973(2), means the proper officer within the meaning of that Act.