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Section 19: Service of summons.

RepealedTHE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965, Sierra Leone

(1) The constable or an officer of the Court to whom a summons is delivered for service shall serve the same upon the person to whom it is directed by delivering it to him personally or by leaving it with some other person for him at his last or usual place of residence. (2) If service in the manner provided in subsection (1) cannot by the exercise of due diligence be effected, the serving constable or person shall affix the same to some conspicuous part of such last or usual place of residence of the person summoned and thereupon the summons shall be deemed to have been duly served. Proof of service outside local limits of jurisdiction. Form 6 in Schedule II.

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