Schedule, Form 15.
representative or in any other representative capacity) enter ao appearance in the action and defend it by a solicitor or in person.
(2) Except as expressly provided by an enactment, a defendant to such an action who is a body corporate may not enter an appearance in the action or defend it otherwise than by a solicitor.
(3) An appearance is entered by properly completing the requisite documents, that is to say, a memorandum of appearance, as defined in paragraph (5), and a copy thereof, and handing them in at the Registry to the authorized officer or seading them by post to the Registrar.
(4) If two or more defendants to an action enter an appearance by the same solicitor and at the same time, only one set of the requisite documents need be completed and delivered for those defendants,
(5) (a) A memorandum of appearance is a request to the Registrar to enter an appearance for the de- fendant or defendants specified in the memoran- dum.
(5) A memorandum of appearance shall be in Form 15 and both the memorandum of appearance and the copy thereof must be signed by the solicitor by whom the defendant appears or, if the defendant appears in person, by the defendant.
(c) A memorandum of appearance must specify-
() in every case, a residential address of the defendant's within the Colony or. if he has no such address within the Colony, some other address within the Colony; and
(ii) in the case of a defendant appearing by a| solicitor, a business address of his solicitor's with- in the Colony:
and where the defendant enters an appearance in person, the address specified under sub-paragraph (a) shall be his address for service, but otherwise his solicitor's business address shall be his address for service.
(d) Where the defendant enters an appearance by a solicitor who is acting as agent for another solicitor having a place of business within the Colony, the memorandum of appearance must state that the
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first named solicitor so acts and must also state the name and address of the other solicitor.
(e) If the court is satisfied on application by the plain. tiff that any address specified in the memorandum of appearance is not genuine, the court may sel aside the appearance.
44. (1) References in these rules to the time limited for catering for entering an appearance are references–
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and late APPESTRIKE. 0. 12, r. 5.
0. 12, z. 6.
(4) in the case of a writ served within the jurisdiction, to eight days after service of the writ (including the day of service) or, where that time had been extended by or by virtue of these rules, the time as so extended; and
(b) in the case of a writ, or notice of a writ, served out of the jurisdiction, to the time fixed by order of the court under paragraph (3) of rule 37 or, where that time has been extended as aforesaid, the time as extended.
(2) A defendant may not enter an appearance to an action after judgment has been entered therein except with the leave of the court.
(3) Except as provided by paragraph (1), nothing in these rules or any writ or order thereunder shall be con- strued as precluding a defendant from entering an appear- ance in an action after the time limited for entering an appearance, but if a defendant enters an appearance after that time he shall not, unless the court otherwise orders, be entitled to serve a defence or to do any other thing later than if he had entered an appearance within that time.”.
Rule 28 of Order Ill of the principal rules is amended by the insertion, after paragraph (1), of the following new paragraph--
"(LA) Woless the court otherwise directs notice of the judg- ment or order must be served personally on the person directed to be served therewith under paragraph (1)”,
5.
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et rule 28 of Onder III.
Order III of the principal rules is amended by the addition, Addition to after rule 53, of the following new rule-
"Service of athended writ
ор деге added as defendant.
Order III of new rule
53A. Where by an order under rule 48 a person is to 53A. be made a defendant, the rules as to service of, and entry of appearance to, a writ shall apply accordingly to service of the amended writ on him and to entry of appearance by him, but before the writ is served on him the order must be entered in the Cause Book.".