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The Agricultural Land Tribunals Rules 1978 - continued

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SUPPLEMENTAL

Mode of service
    35. (1) ) Every application, reply or other document required or authorised by these Rules to be served on any person shall be deemed to have been duly served if it is delivered to him or left at his proper address, or sent to him by post in a registered letter or by recorded delivery.

    (2) Any such document required or authorised to be given to, or served on, an incorporated company or body shall be duly given or served if given to or served on the secretary or clerk of the company or body.

    (3) The proper address of any person to or on whom any such document is to be given or served shall, in the case of a secretary or clerk of any incorporated company or body, be that of the registered or principal office of the company or body and, in any other case, be the last known address of the person in question.

    (4) Where any such document is to be given to, or served on, any person as being the owner of land and the land belongs to an ecclesiastical benefice, a copy thereof shall be served on the Church Commissioners.

Substituted service
    36. If any person on whom any document is required to be served for the purpose of these Rules cannot be found, or has died and has no known personal representative, or is out of the United Kingdom, or if any other reason service on him cannot be readily effected, the chairman may dispense with service on such person or may make an order for substituted service on such other person or in such other form (whether by advertisement in a newspaper or otherwise) as the chairman may think fit.

Extension of time
    37. The time appointed by or under these Rules for doing any act or taking any step in connection with any proceedings may be extended by the chairman on such terms and conditions, if any, as appear to him just.

Failure to comply with rules
    38. Any failure on the part of any person to comply with the provisions of these Rules shall not render the proceedings, or anything done in pursuance thereof, invalid unless the chairman or the tribunal so direct.

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