On 7 February 2012 12:52, Mark Goodge <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/02/2012 12:37, paul perrin wrote: > >> Not a lawyer - just assertive.. I'd argue... >> >> If it was there for them to handle first thing on the first day (which >> it would have been), then I'd argue that they have had 10 days notice. >> >> Its not your problem how the treat/handle/process things once they have >> been received by them - it was in their possession for 10 full working >> days. >> >> I read it that the 'clock' starts when the document is deposited at the >> correct address - not once it has been forwarded/opened/read/stamped etc. >> > > No, the clock starts when the document is "received". That means opened. > Particularly in this case, since the ten clear days, as Colm points out, is > to allow for lawful objections. The day on which the document is processed > is excluded from that ten days, and deliberately so, in order to ensure > that there are always ten full days in which to object.
So if they left it unopened they could sit on it indefinitely? I think not. >From Francis Davey's link: <quote> (2) Where that person is a licensing authority, the relevant document must be given by addressing it to the authority and leaving it at or sending it by post to— </quote> It says 'Leaving it at' - so once 'left' it is no longer your responsibility what happens to it next... If the council are only allowed 10 days notice, and the police require 10 days from them, then it seems the council have a real problem that *they* need to sort out. Paul /)/+)
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