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Rule 66 Service of summonsI1

England and Wales

(1)

A judge or F1district judge or, where the application is to be made to a district probate registrar, that registrar, may direct that a summons for the service of which no other provision is made by these Rules shall be served on such person or persons as the F2judge, district judge or registrar F3may direct.

(2)

Where by these Rules or by any direction given under the last foregoing paragraph a summons is required to be served on any person, it shall be served not less than two clear days before the day appointed for the hearing, unless a judge or F4district judge or registrar at or before the hearing dispenses with service on such terms, if any, as he may think fit.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in rule 66(1) substituted (14.10.1991) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/1876), rules 1(1), 7(3)(7)

F2

Words in rule 66(1) substituted (14.9.1998) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1998 (S.I. 1998/1903), rules 1(1), 15

F3

Words in rule 66(1) substituted (14.10.1991) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/1876), rules 1(1), 7(7)

F4

Words in rule 66(2) inserted (14.10.1991) by The Non-Contentious Probate (Amendment) Rules 1991 (S.I. 1991/1876), rules 1(1), 7(1)

Commencement

I1

Rule 66 in force at 1.1.1988, see rule 1