Rule 62 Summons server’s Process Book

A summons server shall keep a book (called a Process Book) in which he shall enter the names of the parties to any process handed to him for service, with the date on which he receives it and the date and place of service and the manner in which he has served it.

In any case in which a process has not been duly served, the summons server shall enter the cause of non-service in the Process Book.

The summons server shall endorse upon the original of each process he has served the date, place and manner of service, and sign the endorsement.

The summons server shall lodge his Process Book with the clerk of petty sessions and, except where the court allows proof of the service of a process by affidavit [^f1 or certificate in Form 111A] in accordance with Article 126 of the Order or where a district judge (magistrates’ court) otherwise directs, shall attend at each sitting of a court of summary jurisdiction for the hearing of processes served by him and produce his Process Book or give evidence as to service, as may be directed by the court.

In the case of the death, illness, or unavoidable absence of a summons server form a sitting of a court at which he would otherwise be required to attend, his Process Book, if produced to the court and verified on oath as to his handwriting by some creditable person, shall be prima facie evidence of any matter entered therein.