ORDER XLI

1THE SUPREME COURT RULES, 1978 1THE SUPREME COURT RULES, 1978. PART VIII MISCELLANEOUS ORDER XLI SERVICE OF DOCUMENTS. 1 Except where otherwise provided by Statute or prescribed by these Rules, all notices, orders or other documents required to be given to, or served on, any person shall be served in the manner provided by the Code for the leaving it at his place of business or by sending it to his address by registered post. 3. Service of any notice, order or other document upon a person, other than an Advocate, residing at a place within the territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir between which place and the seat of the Court there is communication by registered post, may be effected by posting a copy of the document required to be served in an prepaid envelop registered for acknowledgment, addressed to the party or person at the place where he ordinarily resides: Provided that the Registrar may direct, in a particular case or class of cases, that the service shall be effected in the manner provided by the Code for the service of summons. 4. A document served by post shall be deemed to be served at the time at which it could have been delivered in the ordinary course of post. 5. Except where the notice or process has been served through the Registry, the party required to effect the service shall file an affidavit of service, along with such proof thereof as may be available, stating the manner in which the service has been effected. 6 Where the notice, order or other document has been served through another Court, the service may be proved by the deposition or affidavit of the serving Officer made before the Court through which the service was effected. 7. Service effected after Court hours shall, for the purpose of computing any period of time subsequent to that service, be deemed to have been effected on the following day.