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69. Summons how served.(1) The summons shall, if practicable, be served personally on the
person summoned, by delivering or tendering to him one of the duplicates of the summons.
(2) Signature of receipt for summons. Every person on whom a summon is to be served shall
2* * *sign a receipt thereof on the back of the other duplicate.
(3) Service of a summons on an incorporated company or other body corporate may be
effected by serving it on the secretary, local manager or other principal officer of the corporation or
by registered post letter addressed to the chief officer of the corporation in 3[Pakistan]. In such case
the service shall be deemed to have been effected when the letter would arrive in ordinary course of
post.
70. Service when person summoned cannot be found. Where the person summoned cannot
by the exercise of due diligence be found, the summons may be served by leaving one of the
duplicates for him with some adult male member of his family, 4* * *,and the person with whom
the summons is so left shall, 2* * *,sign a receipt therefore on the back of the other duplicate.
71. Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided. If service in the manner
mentioned in sections 69 and 70 cannot by the exercise of due diligence be effected, the serving
officer shall affix one of the duplicates of the summons to some conspicuous part of the house or
homestead in which the person summoned ordinarily resides; and thereupon the summons shall be
deemed to have been duly served.
72. 5[Service on servant of State [Statutory body or Company].(1) Where the person
summoned is in the active service of the 6[State] or of a 7[8[a]statutory body or a company], the
Court issuing the summons shall ordinarily send it in duplicate to the head of the office in which
such person is employed; and such head shall thereupon cause the summons to be served in
manner provided by Section 69, and shall return it to the Court under his signature with the
endorsement required by that section.
(2) Such signature shall be evidence of due service.
1 SubSection (3) omitted by A.O., 1949, Sch.
2 The words “if so required by the serving officer” omitted by the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972 (12 of 1972), s.2 and Sch.
3 Subs. by the Central Laws (Statue Reform) Ordinance, 1960 (21 of 1960), s. 3 and 2nd Sch. (with effect from the 14th October, 1955), for “the Provinces and the Capital of the Federation”, which had
been subs. by A.O., 1949, Arts. 3 (2) and 4, for “British India”.
4 The words and commas “or, in a presidencytowns, with his servant residing with him” rep. by the Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act, 1951 (26 of 1951), s.3 and II Sch.
5 Subs. by Ordinance 12 of 1972, s.2 and Sch., for “Service on servant of State or of Railway Company”.
6 Subs. by A.O., 1961, Art. 2 and Sch. (with effect from the 23rd March, 1956), for “Crown” which had been subs. by A.O., 1937, for “Govt.”
7 Subs. by Ordinance 12 of 1972, s. 2 and Sch., for “Railway Company”.
8 Sic. “a” is superfluous.
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