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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Enforcement and other matters - Enforcement measures - General provisions

116: Issue of notice

You could also call this:

“How notices can be given and received”

You can give someone a notice in different ways. You can hand it to them in person. You can send it to their home or work by mail or electronically. You can leave it at their home or work with someone who looks like they’re at least 16 years old and lives or works there. You can also leave it at the workplace the notice is about with someone who seems to be in charge. There might be other ways to give a notice that are set out in rules.

There might be rules that say what a person who gets a notice needs to do to tell other people about it.

If you send a notice by mail, it’s treated as if the person got it seven days after you sent it.

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Part 4 Enforcement and other matters
Enforcement measures: General provisions

116Issue of notice

  1. A notice may be issued to a person—

  2. by delivering it personally to the person; or
    1. by sending it to the person—
      1. by post to the person’s usual or last known place of residence or business; or
        1. by electronic transmission; or
        2. by leaving it for the person at the person's usual or last known place of residence or business with a person who appears to be 16 years or over and who appears to reside or work there; or
          1. by leaving it for the person at the workplace to which the notice relates with a person who is or appears to be in charge of the workplace; or
            1. in a prescribed manner.

              1. Regulations may prescribe the steps a person to whom a notice is issued must take to bring it to the attention of other persons.

              2. A notice posted under subsection (1)(b)(i) is to be treated as having been received on the seventh day after the date on which it was posted.

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