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Administration and enforcement - Administration - Serving notices and other documents

126: Service of notices and other documents

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"How to give someone official documents or notices for the Offshore Renewable Energy law"

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If you need to give someone a notice or document for the purposes of this proposed law, you must send it to the address they have chosen for receiving documents, if they have specified one. You can send it by post or deliver it to that address. If they have not chosen an address, you can give it to them in other ways.

You can deliver the notice or document personally to the person, or leave it at their home or workplace. You can also send it by post to their home or workplace, or to their email address. Another option is to leave it at a document exchange for them to collect.

If you are giving a notice or document to a company or organisation, you can give it to one of its officers or leave it at its registered office. This will be treated as if you gave it to the company or organisation itself. If you are giving a notice or document to a partnership, you can give it to one of the partners, and this will be treated as if you gave it to the partnership.

This rule does not apply if you are giving a notice or document as part of a court case, or if this proposed law or its regulations specify a different way of delivering the notice or document.

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This page was last updated on 29 June 2025

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125: Permit holder’s address for service and contact, or

"Tell us where to send important papers and how to contact you if you get a permit"

127: Receipt of notices and other documents, or

"How notices and documents are considered received"

Part 4Administration and enforcement
Administration: Serving notices and other documents

126Service of notices and other documents

A notice or any other document required or authorised to be served on or given to a person for the purposes of this Act—
must, if the person has specified an address for service, be served or given by sending it by post or delivering it to that address:
may, if paragraph (a) does not apply, be served or given by—
1. delivering it personally to the person (other than to a Minister of the Crown); or
2. delivering it at the usual or last known place of residence or business of the person; or
3. sending it by post addressed to the person at the usual or last known place of residence or business of the person; or
4. sending it to the usual or last known email address of the person; or
5. leaving it at a document exchange for direction to the document exchange box number used by the person.

If a notice or other document is to be served on or given to a body (whether incorporated or not) for the purposes of this Act, service on an officer of the body, or on the registered office of the body, in accordance with subsection (1) is to be treated as service on the body.
If a notice or other document is to be served on a partnership for the purposes of this Act, service on any one of the partners in accordance with subsections (1) and (2) is to be treated as service on the partnership.
This section does not apply to notices or other documents served or given in any proceeding in any court or to the extent that a different or particular delivery method is specified by this Act or the regulations.