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  "legislation_title": "The Magistrates' Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Rules 1993",
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  "number": "3",
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  "text": "(1) Where service of a document is required by this Schedule or by a rule where this Schedule applies to proceedings pursuant to that rule it may be effected, unless the contrary is indicated—\n(a) if the person to be served is not known by the person serving to be acting by solicitor—\n(i) by delivering it to him personally, or\n(ii) by delivering it at, or by sending it by first-class post to, his residence or last known residence, or\n(b) if the person to be served is known by the person serving to be acting by solicitor—\n(i) by delivering the document at, or sending it by first-class post to, the solicitor’s address for service,\n(ii) where the solicitor’s address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange, by leaving the document at that document exchange or at a document exchange which transmits documents on every business day to that document exchange, or\n(iii) by sending a legible copy of the document by facsimile transmission to the solicitor’s office.\n(2) In this paragraph, “first-class post” means first-class post which has been pre-paid or in respect of which pre-payment is not required.\n(3) A document shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been served—\n(a) in the case of service by first-class post, on the second business day after posting, and\n(b) in the case of service in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)(b)(ii), on the second business day after the day on which it is left at the document exchange.\n(4) In any proceedings where this Schedule, or a rule where this Schedule applies, requires a document to be served, the court or the justices' clerk may, without prejudice to any power under paragraph 4 below, direct that—\n(a) the requirement shall not apply;\n(b) the time specified by the rules for complying with the requirement shall be abridged to such extent as may be specified in the direction;\n(c) service shall be effected in such manner as may be specified in the direction.",
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