HC Deb 21 June 1984 vol 62 c542

'(1) Any notice or other document under this Act may be given to or served on any person and any application or written request under this Act may be made to any person—

  1. (a) by delivering it to him or leaving it at his proper address, or
  2. (b) by sending it to him by post,
and also, where the person concerned is a body corporate, by giving or making it to or serving it on the secretary or clerk of that body.

(2) For the purposes of this section and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 as it applies for the purposes of this section, the proper address of any person Shall be—

  1. (a) in the case of a body corporate or its secretary or clerk, the address of the principal office of the body,
  2. (b) in any other case, his last known address,
and also, where an additional address for service has been specified by that person in a notice under section 18(3) of this Act, that address. '—[Mr. Gow.]

Brought up, and read the First time.

8.2 pm

The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Ian Gow)

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

The purpose of this new clause is self-evident. The procedures in the Bill, notably in clauses 3, 4, 6 and 11, require the service of notices by the appropriate authority, and the making of written requests by the person eligible for assistance. In some cases, there are time limits. It is important that it should be clear what will suffice to comply with the requirement to serve a notice or to make a written request. The Bill does not at present deal with the mechanics of serving such notices and making such requests and the new clause remedies that omission.

Question put and agreed to.

Clause read a Second time and added to the Bill.

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