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PAYMENT OF WAGES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1970 - SECT 5

Provisions as to notices and statements.

5.(1) Anything which, in accordance with any of the preceding provisions of
this Act, may be done by an employed person by notice in writing given to his
employer may be done by such a notice given either by the employed person
himself or by a person authorised by him to act on his behalf; and anything
which, in accordance with section 3(3), may be done by agreement in writing
may be done by such an agreement made by the employer either with the
employed person himself or with a person so authorised.

(2) Any such notice as is mentioned in subsection (1), whether given by or on
behalf of an employed person,

(a)may be given by being delivered to the employer, or sent by post addressed
to him at the place of business where that person is employed, or

(b)if arrangements in that behalf have been made by the employer, may be given
by being delivered to a person designated by the employer in pursuance of the
arrangements, or left for such person at a place so designated, or sent by
post to such a person at an address so designated.

(3) Any notice or statement which by any provision of this Act is authorised
or required to be given by an employer to an employed person may be given by
being delivered to the employed person, or left for him at his usual or last
known place of residence, or sent by post addressed to him at that place.

(4) For the purposes of this Act section 24(1) of the Interpretation Act
(Northern Ireland) 1954 (which provides that the service of a document
authorised or required to be sent by post may be effected by sending the
document by registered post) shall have effect as if the word "registering"
were omitted therefrom.

(5) Any notice or statement which, in accordance with any provision of
section 24 of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 or any provision
of this section, is left for a person at a place or address referred to in
those provisions shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to have
been received by him on the day on which it was left there.

(6) Nothing in subsection (1) or subsection (2) shall be construed as
affecting the capacity of an employer to act by a servant or agent for the
purposes of any provision of this Act, including either of those subsections.


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