142. The Act of 2007 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 111:

“112. (1) Where the Council, a section 20(2) committee or the chief executive officer is required or authorised under this Act to notify a registered medical practitioner, former registered medical practitioner, intern, former intern, adapter or former adapter of a decision or other matter concerning the person, the notification shall be sent by pre-paid post or electronically to him or her at the address stated in the register of medical practitioners, register of interns or register of adapters (as the case may be) in which his or her name is or was (as the case may be) entered.

(2) Where the Council or the chief executive officer is required or authorised under this Act to notify a person (not being a registered medical practitioner, former registered medical practitioner, intern, former intern, adapter or former adapter) who has made an application under this Act of a decision or other matter concerning the application, the notification shall be sent by pre-paid post or electronically to the person at the address stated in the application.

(3) Where a notification under this Act has been sent to a person in accordance with subsection (1) or (2), the notification shall be deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to have been duly delivered to the person on the 3rd working day after the day on which it was so sent.”.