Investment Intermediaries Act, 1995

Service of notices.

3.—(1) Where a notice, direction or other document is authorised or required by or under this Act or regulations made thereunder to be served on a person, it shall, unless otherwise specified in this Act, be addressed to him and shall be served on or given to him in one of the following ways—

(a) where it is addressed to him by name, by delivering it to him, or

(b) by leaving it at the address at which he ordinarily resides or, in a case in which an address for service has been furnished, at that address, or

(c) by sending it by ordinary prepaid post addressed to him at the address at which he ordinarily resides or, in a case in which an address for service has been furnished, at that address, or

(d) in the case of an officer or employee of an investment business firm whether authorised or otherwise, or a proposed investment business firm, by sending it to him by ordinary prepaid post addressed to him at the address of the principal office of that investment business firm or proposed investment business firm.

(2) Any such document may—

(a) in the case of an investment business firm whether authorised or otherwise or proposed investment business firm or any other body corporate, be served on the secretary or other employee or officers of that investment business firm or other body corporate, or

(b) in the case of a partnership, be served on any partner, or

(c) in the case of an unincorporated association other than a partnership, be served on any member of its governing body, or

(d) in the case of a sole trader, be served on the sole trader.

(3) Where a condition or requirement is to be imposed, or specification made, by a supervisory authority under this Act, in respect of more than one person, a supervisory authority may, where it considers it necessary to do so, give notice of such fact by way of publication of such conditions, requirements or specifications in the Iris Oifigiúil.