Sch 4 para 8
(1) This paragraph applies to any notice required to be served on a person under section 35C(5), (7) or (8), 35E(1), 39(2), 41(10) or 41A(5) of this Act or paragraph 5A(3), (3A) or (3E) or 5C(3) , (3A) or (5) above or by virtue of section 35CC(6) . (2) Any such notice may be so served— (a) by delivering it to him; (b) by leaving it at his proper address; (c) by sending it by a registered post service; ... (d) by sending it by a postal service which provides for the delivery of the notice by post to be recorded ; or (e) by sending it to an email address which the person provides for the purpose of fitness to practise proceedings (3) For the purposes of this paragraph and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this paragraph, a person’s proper address shall be— (a) his address in the register; or (b) if the conditions in sub-paragraph (4) below are satisfied, his last known address. (4) The conditions are that— (a) the person’s last known address differs from his address in the register; and (b) it appears to the Registrar that a letter sent to the person at his last known address is more likely to reach him. (5) For the purposes of this paragraph— (a) the serving of a notice effected by sending it by post shall be deemed to have been effected at the time when the letter containing it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post; and (b) so much of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 as relates to the time when service is deemed to have been effected shall not apply to a notice sent by post. (6) For the purposes of this paragraph, service of a notice sent by email is effected only if there is an electronic receipt showing that the email has been opened (or if the recipient acknowledges receipt in some other way).