2012/2/7 paul perrin <[email protected]>: > I know its pedantic and hair splitting (or but the only stupid question is > the one you don't ask... so...) > > As there is specific provision for giving the notice on a non-working day - > if that doesn't include Sundays what could it possibly mean?
Well it could have included Saturdays only, but in fact its quite clear that if it is possible to give a notice on a Sunday (i.e. physically possible) there is nothing wrong with doing it that way. The purpose of the act is to allow the authority 10 (complete) working days. They get that whether you serve it on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, all of which have the same effect in terms of the running of time. So: to be clear, I have absolutely no doubt that a notice left at the authority's address on a Sunday would have worked, but the situation described is of an email, which is not the same thing. > > Also it says you give notice by addressing and posting or leaving the > document... which seems to suggest the clock starts as soon as you *post* > the document, not when it is received... > No. As it happens section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 applies: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/30/section/7 In other words its when the notice would have arrived in the normal course of the post. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
