Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1997
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Summonses. |
2.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any enactment or the District Court Rules— | |
(a) a summons in connection with proceedings under section 62 of the Housing Act, 1966 , or this Act may be served by ordinary prepaid post or in any one of the other ways referred to in section 3(1) of the Housing Act, 1966 ; | ||
(b) a summons in connection with proceedings in the District Court under section 62 of the Housing Act, 1966 , or this Act may, in lieu of being signed and issued by a judge of the District Court, be signed and issued under the general superintendence of an appropriate District Court clerk as a matter of administrative procedure. | ||
(2) In this section “appropriate District Court clerk”, in relation to a summons, means a District Court clerk assigned to any District Court area in the District Court district in which a justice of the District Court has jurisdiction in relation to the proceedings to which the summons relates. |