(1) Every summons issued under the Act and these rules shall be in writing:, shall be authenticated by the seal, if any, of the officer by whom it is issued and shall be signed by such officer or by any person authorized by him in writing in that behalf. It shall require the person summoned to appear before the said officer at a stated time and place, and shall specify whether his attendance is required as a party to a dispute to answer the claim or as a witness to give evidence or to produce a document or for both purposes, and any particular document the production of which is required shall be described in the summons with reasonable accuracy.
(2) Any person may be summoned to produce a document without being summoned to give evidence; and any person summoned merely to produce document shall be deemed to have complied with the summons, if he causes such document to be produced, instead of attending personally to produce the same.
(3) The service of summons under the Act on any person may be effected in any of the following ways.-
(a) by giving or tendering it to such person; or
(b) if such person is not found, by leaving it at his last known place of residence or of business or by giving or tendering it to some adult member of his family;
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(c) if the address of such person is known to the Registrar or other authorized person by sending it to him by registered post prepaid for acknowledgement;
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(d) if none of the means aforesaid is available, by affixing it in some conspicuous part of his last known place of residence or business.
(4) Where the serving officer delivers or tenders copy of the summons to the person summoned personally or to an agent or other person on his behalf, he shall require the signature of the person to whom the copy is so delivered or tendered, to an acknowledgement of service endorsed on the original summons.
(5)The serving officer shall in all cases in which the summons has been served under sub-rule (4) endorse or annex, or cause to be endorsed or annexed, on or to the original summons a return stating the time when and the manner in which summons was served and the name and address of the person, if any, identifying the person served and witnessing the delivery or tender of the summons.
(6) Where the party to be summoned is a public officer or is a servant of a Railway Company or local authority, the officer issuing the summons may, if it appears that the summons may be most conveniently so served, send it by registered post, prepaid for acknowledgement for service on the party to be summoned, to the head of the office in which he is employed, together with a copy to be retained by the party.
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