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The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

Section 71Procedure when service cannot be effected as before provided

In forcePart III GENERAL PROVISIONSChapter VI OF PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE

Part III GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter VI OF PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE

s. 71

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.

End of s. 71. Not in the index for this Act: Schedule (sub).

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