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Section 203: Manner in which disclosure notice may be served

National Health Service Act 2006 · 2006 c. 41View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 10: Protection of NHS from fraud and other unlawful activities

This section provides for the manner in which a notice may be served under section 197.

The notice may be served on a person by—

delivering it to him,
leaving it at his proper address,
sending it by post to him at that address.

For the purposes of this section and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) (service of documents by post) in its application to this section, the proper address of a person is his usual or last-known address (whether residential or otherwise), except that—

in the case of a notice to be served on the secretary, clerk or similar officer of a body corporate, it is the address of the registered office of that body or its principal office in the United Kingdom,
in the case of a notice to be served on a partner or a person having the control or management of a partnership business, it is the address of the principal office of the partnership in the United Kingdom, and
in the case of a notice to be served on an officer of an unincorporated association (other than a partnership), it is the address of the principal office of the association in the United Kingdom.

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