General Rate Act 1967

109Service of notices, etc.

(1)Any notice, demand note, application, summons, order or other document of any description required or authorised to be sent, given, made or served under or for the purposes of this Act may be sent, given, made or served either—

(a)by delivering it to the person to or on whom it is to be sent, given, made or served; or

(b)by leaving it at the usual or last known place of abode of that person, or in the case of a company at its registered office; or

(c)by forwarding it by post addressed to that person at his usual or last known place of abode, or in the case of a company at its registered office; or

(d)by delivering it to some person on the premises to which it relates or (except in the case of a summons) if there is no person on the premises to whom it can be so delivered, then by fixing it on some conspicuous part of the premises ; or

(e)without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this subsection, where the hereditament to which the document relates is a place of business of the person to or on whom it is to be sent, given, made or served, by leaving it at, or forwarding it by post addressed to that person at, the said place of business.

(2)Any such document as aforesaid by this Act required or authorised to be served on the owner or occupier of any premises may be addressed by the description of " owner " or " occupier " of the premises (naming them) without further name or description.

(3)Any such document as aforesaid—

(a)if required or authorised for the purposes of this Act to be sent, given, made or transmitted to or served on any public or local authority shall be deemed to be duly sent, given, made, transmitted or served if in writing and delivered at or sent by post to the office of the authority addressed to that authority or to their clerk;

(b)if required or authorised to be sent, given, made, transmitted or served under this Act by any authority or body shall be sufficiently authenticated if signed by the clerk of the authority or body.

(4)Any notice required by this Act to be served on the valuation officer need not name the valuation officer but may describe him as the valuation officer for the rating area in question, without further description, and may be served by post.

(5)The foregoing provisions of this section shall be without prejudice to paragraph 8(6) of Schedule 1 to this Act and to the application to the service of documents under Part VI of this Act of any rules made under section 15 of the [1949 c. 101.] Justices of the Peace Act 1949.

(6)In this section, the expression " local authority " means any body having power to levy a rate or to issue a precept to a rating authority.