CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE
No. 3 of 1901.
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31. A party suing or defending by a solicitor shall be at liberty to change his solicitor in any cause or matter, without an order for that purpose, upon notice in writing of such change being filed in the Registry; but until such notice is filed and a copy thereof served on the opposite party, the former solicitor shall be considered the solicitor of the party until the conclusion of the cause or matter.
Service of process in general.
32. No service in an action or other proceeding shall be made on Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday.
Prohibition of service on Sunday, etc. H. K. Code, s.18 (1). [cf. No. 5 of 1912, s. 8.]
Mode of service.
33. Unless in any case the court thinks it proper otherwise to direct, service shall be personal, that is, the document to be served shall be delivered to the person to be served: H. K. Code, s. 8 (2). Provided always that where the duly authorised solicitor of the person to be served undertakes to accept service on behalf of his client, service on such solicitor shall be equivalent to personal service on the client, and all 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.
34.—(1) Where it is made to appear to the court that for any reason prompt personal service of any document of which service is required cannot conveniently be effected, the court may order that service be effected--
Special modes of service by order of the court. H. K. Code, s. 8 (3).
(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
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