Greyhound Racing Act 2019
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Notifications, notices and documents | ||
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4. (1) Where a notification, a notice or document under the Greyhound Racing Acts 1958 to 2019 is required to be given to or served on a person it shall be addressed to the person and shall be given to or served on the person— | ||
(a) by delivering it to the person or in the case of a partnership by delivering it to any of the partners, | ||
(b) by leaving it at the address at which the person ordinarily resides or carries on business, | ||
(c) by sending it by post in a pre-paid registered letter addressed to the person at the address at which the person ordinarily resides or carries on business, | ||
(d) if an address for the service of the notification, notice or document has been furnished by the person, by leaving it at, or sending it by pre-paid registered post addressed to the person to, that address, or | ||
(e) by sending it by means of electronic mail to a device or facility for the reception of electronic mail where such an electronic mail address has been furnished by the person, but only if the sender’s facility for the reception of electronic mail generates a message confirming a receipt of the electronic mail confirming successful transmission of the notification, notice or document. | ||
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a company formed and registered under the Companies Act 2014 or an existing company within the meaning of that Act is considered to be ordinarily resident at its registered office, and every other body corporate and every unincorporated body is considered to be ordinarily resident at its principal office or place of business. | ||
(3) A copy of a notification, notice or document, which has endorsed on it a certificate by an authorised officer or a welfare officer (appointed under section 7 of the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011 ), as the case may be, stating that the copy is a true copy of the notification, notice or document may, without proof of signature of that person, be produced in every court or before the Control Committee or Appeal Committee and is evidence, unless the contrary is shown, of the notification, notice or document. | ||
(4) Section 53 of the Principal Act is repealed. |