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The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898

Section 72Service on servant of Republic

In forcePart III GENERAL PROVISIONSChapter VI OF PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE

Part III GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter VI OF PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE

s. 72

72. Service on servant of Republic (1) Where the person summoned is in the active service of the [Republic], 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.

End of s. 72. Not in the index for this Act: Schedule (sub).

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