CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
No. 3 of 1901.
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further service in the action or proceeding may be made by delivering the document to be served to such solicitor or by leaving the same at his place of business.
Modes of service by
34.—(1) Where it is made to appear to the Court that for any special reason prompt personal service of any document of which service is required cannot conveniently be effected, the Court may order that service be effected-
(a) by delivery of the document to be served, together with the order for service, to some adult inmate at the usual or last known place of abode or business within the Colony of the person to be served; or
(b) by delivery thereof to some agent within the Colony of the person to be served, or to some other person within the Colony through whom it appears to the Court that there is a reasonable probability that the document and order served will come to the knowledge of the person to be served; or
(c) by advertisement thereof in one or more newspapers published in the Colony; or
(d) by notice thereof put up at the Court House, or at some other place of public resort, or at the usual or last known place of abode or business within the Colony of the person to be served; or
(e) in any two or more of these modes.
Order of the Court. [ib. s. 8 (3).]
(2) Every application for an order for such service shall be supported by an affidavit setting forth the grounds on which the application is made.
Service of Process in Particular Cases.
Service on defendant in public
35. When the action or other proceeding is against a person, in the service of the Government, the Court may transmit a copy of the document to be served to the head of the department in which the defendant is employed, for the purpose of being served on him, if it appears to the Court that the document may most conveniently be so served.
Service on corporations.
36. When the action or other proceeding is against a company or corporation created by charter or letters patent, or by or under any certain Ordinance, which has its principal officer or its principal office or its principal place of business or registered office in the Colony,
* As amended by No. 36 of 1911 and No. 2 of 1912.
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