(2) Such summons shall be served by a policeman, a retainer, chief or by any officer of
the Court issuing it or other public servant who, under any rule for the time being in
force, may be authorized to serve summons.
Note: (1) A summons or warrant of arrest may be issued by any Magistrate Competent to
inquire into an offence that is, by any Magistrate who has not been prohibited under
section 135 (2) from holding the inquiry or the terms of whose appointment do not either
expressly or impliedly limit his powers in this respect.
(2) See section 64 also.
(3) For forms of summons to accused person and witnesses see Schedule 111, 1 and 2
respectively,
45.
Service and Signature of Summons:(1)
The summons shall if practicable are served personally on the person summoned
by delivering or tendering to him one of the duplicates of the summons.
(2) The person served shall, if so required by, the serving officer, sign or seal a receipt
therefore on the back of the other duplicate.
46.
Service on Company.
Service of a summon on an incorporated company or other body corporate may be
effected by serving it on the secretary, local manager or other principal officer of the
corporation at any office of the corporation in the New Sudan.
47.
Service when Person Summoned Cannot be Found.
Where the person summoned cannot by the exercise of due diligence be found, the
summons may be served by leaving one of the duplicates for him with an adult member
of his family, who shall, if so required by the serving officer, sign a receipt therefore on
the back of the other duplicate, or by affixing one of the duplicates of the summons to
some conspicuous part of the house or homestead in which the person summoned
ordinarily resides.
48.
Inability of Person Served to Sign or Seal.
Where the person on or with whom a summon is served or left, is unable to sign his name
or affix his seal, the summons shall be served or left in the presence of a witness.
49.
Service of Summons outside Local Limits.
A summon requiring to be served outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court
or Magistrate issuing it shall ordinarily be sent in duplicate to a Magistrate, within whose
jurisdiction the person summoned resides or is to be there served,
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