47. A document may be served on a CIO by leaving it at, or sending it by post to, the CIO’s principal office as it appears on the register of charities.
48.—(1) A document may be served on a person to whom this regulation applies by leaving it at, or sending it by post to, the person’s registered service address.
(2) This regulation applies to—
(a)a charity trustee of the CIO; and
(b)an interim manager for the CIO.
(3) This regulation is restricted to service for purposes—
(a)arising out of or in connection with the appointment or position mentioned in paragraph (2); or
(b)in connection with the CIO.
(4) Nothing in this regulation is to be regarded as preventing the Commission from serving a document on an individual at the individual’s last address known to the Commission.
(5) For the purposes of this regulation—
(a)“interim manager” means an interim manager appointed under section 76 of the 2011 Act;
(b)“registered service address” means, in relation to a charity trustee or an interim manager of a CIO, the service address appearing in the entry for that person in the CIO’s register of charity trustees.
(6) If a registered service address is changed after a person (“A”) inspected, or obtained a copy of, the relevant entry in the relevant register, A may validly serve a document at the previous registered service address until the end of the period of 14 days starting with the day on which A inspected, or obtained a copy of, as the case may be, that entry.
(7) For the purposes of paragraph (6) “previous registered service address” means, in relation to a person, the service address which appeared in the entry relating to that person in the relevant register on the day on which A inspected, or obtained a copy of, that entry.