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RECORDED DELIVERY SERVICE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1963 - SECT 3

Application and interpretation.

3.(1) Subject to sub-section (2), section 1 and the Schedule apply to the
following enactments, that is to say

(a)the provisions of any Act of Parliament (whether public general, local or
private) passed before this Act;

(b)the provisions of any local or private Act of the Parliament of the United
Kingdom which extends only to Northern Ireland, being an Act passed before the
appointed day within the meaning of section 6 of the
Government of Ireland Act 1920;

(2) Section 1 and the Schedule do not apply to any enactment which, either as
originally enacted or as amended by any subsequent enactment, requires or
authorises a thing to be sent by the recorded delivery service as an
alternative to registered post or makes provision in relation to a thing sent
by that service.

(3) In this Act

references to sending a document or other thing include references to serving,
giving or delivering it or doing any similar thing;

references to sending any thing by registered post include references to
sending it by or in a registered letter or packet, whether the references are
expressed in those terms or terms having the like effect and whether or not
there is any mention of the post or pre-payment;

references to any thing sent by registered post or the recorded delivery
service shall be construed accordingly; and

references to a local Act include references to any Act confirming a
provisional order or scheme.

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