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Bankruptcy Rules 1928
Div 13Service and Execution of Process.
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Division 13.—Service and Execution of Process.
Address of solicitor for service.
100.—(1.) Every solicitor suing out or serving any petition, notice, summons, order, or other document, shall indorse thereon his name or firm and place of business, which shall be called his address for service, but if his place of business is not within two miles of the Registry in which the cause or matter is commenced, he shall add to his own name or firm and place of business another proper place, which shall not be more than two miles from the Registry, which shall be his address for service.
(2.) All notices, orders, documents, and other written communications which do not require personal service shall be deemed to be sufficiently served on the solicitor, if left for him at his address for service.
Hours for service.
101.—(1.) Service of notices, orders, or other proceedings shall be effected before the hour of four in the afternoon, except on Saturdays, when it shall be effected before the hour of one in the afternoon.
(2.) Service effected after four in the afternoon on any week day, except Saturday, shall for the purpose of computing any period of time subsequent to that service be deemed to have been effected on the following day.
(3.) Service effected after one in the afternoon on Saturday shall for the like purpose be deemed to have been effected on the following Monday
Duties of officers of Court.
102.—(1.) It shall be the duty of such officer as the Court directs to serve such orders, summonses, petitions, and notices as the Court requires him to serve; to execute warrants and other process; to attend any sittings of the Court (but not sittings in Chambers); and to do and perform all such things as are required of him by the Court.
(2.) This rule shall not be construed to require any order, summons, petition, or notice to be served by an officer of the Court which is not specially by the Act or these Rules required to be so served, unless the Court in any particular proceeding by order specially so directs.
Service by post.
No. 37 1924 s. 43.
103. Where notice of an order or other proceeding in Court may be served by post it shall be sent by registered letter.
Enforcement of orders.
104. Every order of the Court may be enforced as if it were a judgment of the Court to the same effect.