The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Revision) 1980

Ordinary service : how effected

5.—(1) Service of any document, not being a document which by virtue of any provision of these Rules is required to be served personally, of a document to which Order 10, rule 1, applies 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 matter as the Court may direct.

(2) For the purposes of this rule, and of section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1), 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 had 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 in connection with which service of the document in question is to be effected, or

(b) in the case of an individual, his usual or last known address, or

(c) in the case of individuals who are suing or being sued 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 statutory provision which provides for the manner in which documents may be served on bodies corporate.

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1978 c. 30