"Long form" and "short form" boilerplate clauses that specify how contractual notices should be given, where they should be served, and when they are deemed to have been received.

Whether a long or short form notice clause is chosen will depend in part on whether the parties want a comprehensive provision that can easily be read and understood by a non-lawyer or whether the focus is on having something that will take up as little space as possible in a document. Notice provisions are usually particularly important, so clarity and flexibility should not readily be sacrificed for brevity. (For a clause-by-clause guide to the value of boilerplate clauses and the effect of omitting them from business-to-business contracts, see Practice Note, Boilerplate: Do I Really Need This Clause and Why?.)

This clause is adapted from a set of boilerplate clauses designed for use in documents governed by English law, which can be found at Standard Clause, Notices.

This standard clause is available in Chinese. To download a Word version of this standard document in Chinese, click Standard Clause, Notices: China (Chinese Language Version).