Personal service on an infant. O. 80, r. 17.
Persana! service on amatic or person of unsound mlad.
0, 80, г. 17.
Service on agent of defeudant
Out of itrrisdiction.
Substituted service.
0. 67, r, 4.
the department in which the person to be served 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. The Registrar shall also transmit with the office copy of the document a copy thereof to be retained by the person to be served.
(2) The head of the department shall cause the docu- ment to be served if possible.
(3) Service shall be effected by leaving with the person to be served the copy of the document transmitted with the office copy and showing him the office copy of the docu. ment. The person served shall acknowledge the service in writing on the office copy which shall be signed by the person who actually serves the document.
(4) The head of the department shall sign and return the office copy and his signature shall be deemed to be evidence of service,
5. Where in any proceeding a document is required to be served personally on any person who is an infant and the provisions of rule 6 do not apply, the document may be served in the manner required by these rules with respect to the document in question on his father or guardian or, if there is no father or guardian, on the person with whom || the infant resides or under whose care he is:
Provided that the court may order that service made or to be made on the infant shall be deemed good service. 6. Where in any proceedings a document is required to be served personally on any person who is a lunatic or who is a person of unsound mind not so found by ioquisi- tion, the document may, unless the court otherwise orders, be served in the manner required by these rules with respect to the document in question, on the committee of the lunatic or on the person with whom the person of unsound mind resides or under whose care he is.
7 Where in any proceedings a document is required to be served personally on any person residing out of the jurisdiction, but carrying on business in the Colony in his own name or under the name of a firm through a duly authorized agent, the document may be served by giving it to such agent, and such service shall be equivalent to per- sonal service on the defendant.
8. (1) If, in the case of any document which by virtue of the provisions of these rules is required to be served per sonally on any person, it appears to the court that it is
Ordinary service; how effected.
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impracticable for any reason to serve that document person- ally on that person, the court may make an order for substituted service of that document.
(2) An application for an order for substituted service may be made by lodging with the court an affidavit stating the facts on which the application is founded.
(3) Substituted service of a document, in relation to which an order is made under this rule, is effected by taking such stops as the court may direct to bring the document to the notice of the person to be served.
9 (1) Service of any document, not being a docu- ment which by virtue of any provision of these rules is required to be served personally, may be effected—–
(a) by leaving the document at the proper address of
the person to be served, or
(b) by post, or
(c) in such other manner as the court may direct.
(2) For the purposes of this rule, and of subsection (6) of section 3 of the Interpretation Ordinance in its application to this rule, the proper address of any person on whom a document is to be served in accordance with this rule shall be the address for service of that person, but if at the time when service is effected that person has no address for service his proper address for the purposes aforesaid shall be
(a) in any case, the business address of the solicitor (if any) who is acting for him in the proceedings ia connexion with which service of the document in question is to be effected, or
(b) in the case of an individual. bis usual or last
known address, or
(c) in the case of individuals who are suing or being suod in the name of a firm, the principal or last known place of business of the firm within the jurisdiction, or
(d) in the case of a body corporate, the registered or
principal office of the body.
(3) Nothing in this rule shall be taken as prohibiting the personal service of any document or as affecting any enactment which provides for the manner in which docu- ments may be served on bodies corporate.
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