Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012

Service of notices and directions.

15.—(1) Where a notice under section 11 (3)(d)(i) or a direction under section 11 (7) is required to be issued to an energy supplier, it shall be in writing, addressed to the supplier and given to the supplier in one of the following ways—

(a) by delivering it to the supplier,

(b) by leaving it at the address at which the supplier ordinarily carries on business,

(c) by sending it by pre-paid registered post addressed to the supplier at the address at which the supplier ordinarily carries on business,

(d) if an address for the service of notices and directions has been furnished by the supplier, by leaving it at, or sending it by pre-paid registered post addressed to that supplier at that address,

(e) by sending it by means of electronic mail or a facsimile machine, to a device or facility for the reception of electronic mail or facsimiles located at the address at which the energy undertaking concerned carries on business or, if an address for the service of a direction or request has been furnished by the energy undertaking concerned, that address, but only if—

(i) the recipient’s facility for the reception of electronic mail generates a message confirming a receipt of the electronic mail, or

(ii) the sender’s facsimile machine generates a message confirming successful delivery of the total number of pages of the direction or request,

and it is also given in one of the other ways mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d).

(2) For the purposes of this section, a company within the meaning of the Companies Acts shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident at its registered office, and every other body corporate and every unincorporated body of persons shall be deemed to be ordinarily resident at its principal office or place of business.