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Section 84A: Service of documents

Land Compensation Act 1973 · 1973 c. 26View on legislation.gov.uk

Part VI: Supplementary Provisions

Any communication required or authorised to be sent to a person under this Act may be sent to an email address or uploaded to a website at which the person has agreed in writing to receive communications for the purposes of the claim for compensation.

Any communication required or authorised under this Act to be sent to—

an acquiring authority, or
a responsible authority within the meaning of section 1,

may also be sent electronically by a method mentioned in subsection (3).

The methods are—

sending the communication to an appropriate email address, or
uploading the communication to an appropriate website.

For the purposes of subsection (3)—

an email address or website is an appropriate one if the authority has—
provided the email address or details of the website to the sender for the purposes of communicating with them about the claim for compensation, or
published the fact that the email address or the website may be used for those purposes;
an email address is also an appropriate one if the authority has previously used it for the purposes of communicating with the sender about the claim for compensation.

A communication sent electronically is, unless the contrary is proved, to be treated as having been received on the working day immediately following the day on which it was sent.

In this section "working day" means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England and Wales.

This section does not apply to a communication required or authorised to be sent under this Act to the Upper Tribunal.

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