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Magistrates' Courts Rules (Northern Ireland) 1984

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Persons entitled to serve processes

59.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and to Rules 60 and 130(2) no person other than a summons server for the petty sessions district in which proceedings are brought or in which the defendant resides shall have authority to serve a process.

(2) Where in any such district a summons server is absent or unable to carry out his duties through illness or other cause, or when the office of summons server is vacant, a process may be served by some other person, if permission for such other person to serve the process has been given by a resident magistrate or by the clerk of petty sessions and has been endorsed or signed by him on the original process.

(3) Nothing in this Rule shall affect the provisions of section 60 of the Miscellaneous Transferred Excise Duties Act (Northern Ireland) 1972(1).

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