Article 5 Service and acknowledgement
The summons shall be served on the respondent by sending it by first class post to his last known address; and the date of service shall, unless the contrary is shown, be deemed to be the 7th day next following that on which the summons was posted.
Where any process or order of the court or other document is required under proceedings subject to these Rules to be served on any person who is not in England and Wales, the court may order service on him of that process or order or other document be effected within such time and in such manner as it thinks fit.
The summons served on the respondent shall be accompanied by a form acknowledgement of service, to be returned by him to the court within 14 days from the date of service, and for this purpose the practice and procedure of the High Court relating to acknowledgements of service shall apply to an application for an order under these Rules both in the High Court and, with such modification as are required, in the County Court,save that any reference to Form 15 in Appendix A to the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965 shall relate to the form as modified by these Rules.
The form of acknowledgement of service shall state that the respondent should indicate—
whether he contests the application on the grounds, that in case of any particular company—
he was not a director or shadow director of the company at a time when conduct of his, or of other persons, in relation to that company is in question, or
his conduct as director or shadow director of that company was not as alleged in support of the application for a disqualification order,
whether, in the case of any conduct of his, he disputes the allegation that such conduct makes him unfit to be concerned in the management of a company, and
whether he, while not resisting the application for a disqualification order, intends to adduce mitigating factors with a view to justifying only a short period of disqualification.