s 29H Notices
(1) This section applies to any notice required to be given to a medical practitioner under— (a) section 29B or 29D above; or (b) paragraph 6 or 7 of Schedule 3B to this Act. (2) Any such notice may be so given— (a) by delivering it to him; (b) by leaving it at his proper address; (c) by sending it by a registered post service; or (d) by sending it by a postal service which provides for the delivery of the notice by post to be recorded. (3) For the purposes of this section and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this section, a medical practitioner’s proper address shall be— (a) his address in the register; or (b) if the conditions in subsection (4) below are satisfied, his last known address. (4) The conditions are that— (a) the practitioner’s last known address differs from his address in the register; and (b) it appears to the body or person giving the notice that a letter sent to the practitioner at his last known address is more likely to reach him. (5) For the purposes of this section— (a) the giving 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.